Archives for December 2006
continuous partial attention
A post to the often interesting iDC (institute for distributed creativity) list caught my eye today.
The post had this quote from Neal Stephenson:
Every productive thing that I do requires ALL my attention. I cannot put it any better than Donald Knuth, who writes on his website, ‘Email is a wonderful thing for people […]
last.fm vs. pandora
A long time ago I moved my music collection onto an external hard drive because it was taking up too much space on the internal hard drive. This wasn’t a big deal because I used my laptop pretty much as a desktop, leaving it plugged in and sitting on my desk all day. […]
last-minute charity
There are still a few days to get a charity contribution in before the end of the tax year. Two worthies are Heifer.org, which lets you donate animals to needy people in the third world. I got a pig, some honeybees, some trees and some other items.
Another cool one is kiva.org, where you can make […]
treo 700p and usbmodem
p.s.: I’m using my new treo 700p along with the program usb modem to write this post in the airport. I’m also listening to streaming tunes at last.fm and browsing a couple other pages in the background. The unlimited data plan for Sprint is only $15/month, and with the usbmodem app that means I’m […]
airport theater of the absurd
I’m sitting in the Newark airport waiting to board my plane, and when I went through security I was reminded of this nyt article about airport ’security theater’. I went through the line and stupidly forgot to pour out the 2 inches of water in my water bottle ahead of time. The agent […]
