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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Nobody Uses the Internet on Friday
Well hello there.Β What are you up to?Β Can I show you something?Β Follow me.Β See this closet?Β In this closet is a box.Β In this box is a little something called the Internet.Β All through the week people are constantly using the internet but on Friday, nobody uses the internet. We can do whatever [...]
The Rise of the Tablet
All day yesterday I followed the news about Apple’s new consumer electronic device, the heralded Apple tablet and I was confused and puzzled.Β I couldn’t see how, why, in what way anyone would want something like this when they could get more power and performance from a netbook or convenience from a smart phone. I [...]
Valloween
Way back in 1999, I wrote an essay called Valloween for one of my many now defunct webzine attempts called Ariadne’s Thread.Β I still love that title, but that was a different life.Β Β Each February, I dust off the essay and post it somewhere, usually in my Livejournal or whatever web site is currently the [...]
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Nobody Uses the Internet on Friday
Psst! Over here. Shhh! Don’t draw attention to us. See, it’s Friday and as far as I can tell, the internet doesn’t get used on Fridays so I can do whatever I want with it.Β I control the vertical.Β I control the horizontal.Β And if you are under the age of 30 you probably have [...]
The Second (or Third or Fourth) Chance
Since Malcolm Gladwell mentioned the ’10,000-Hour Rule’ in his book Outliers there has been a lot of discussion aboutΒ it.Β Β I’m going to do it horrible service by simplistically describing it as practicing a task for 10,000 hours before achieving mastery of it.Β Whether we accept this rule as a fact is not really my [...]
Nobody Uses the Internet On Fridays
Hey, it’s Friday.Β Where is everyone?Β Oh, that’s right.Β Nobody uses the internet on Fridays.Β Which I guess it was a good thing that a friend of mine was using the internet on Thursday to go to Amazon.com.Β So what, you say?Β Well, she was recommended to buy communion wafers.Β Pretty weird, right?Β I mean [...]
