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Nobody Uses the Internet on Friday

Sean | January 28, 2010

Well hello there.  What are you up to?  Can I show you something?  Follow me.  See this closet?  In this closet is a box.  In this box is a little something called the Internet.  All through the week people are constantly using the internet but on Friday, nobody uses the internet.
We can do whatever we [...]

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The Rise of the Tablet

Sean | January 28, 2010

All day yesterday I followed the news about Apple’s new consumer electronic device, the heralded Apple tablet and I was confused and puzzled.  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 admit [...]

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Valloween

Sean | January 25, 2010

Way back in 1999, I wrote an essay called Valloween for one of my many now defunct webzine attempts called Ariadne’s Thread.  I still love that title, but that was a different life.   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

Sean | January 22, 2010

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.  I control the vertical.  I control the horizontal.  And if you are under the age of 30 you probably have [...]

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The Second (or Third or Fourth) Chance

Sean | January 21, 2010

Since Malcolm Gladwell mentioned the ‘10,000-Hour Rule’ in his book Outliers there has been a lot of discussion about  it.   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.  Whether we accept this rule as a fact is not really my [...]

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Nobody Uses the Internet On Fridays

Sean | January 15, 2010

Hey, it’s Friday.  Where is everyone?  Oh, that’s right.  Nobody uses the internet on Fridays.  Which I guess it was a good thing that a friend of mine was using the internet on Thursday to go to Amazon.com.  So what, you say?  Well, she was recommended to buy communion wafers.  Pretty weird, right?  I mean [...]

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