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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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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Tags: ipad, tablets
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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Tags: anti Valentine, love, v, valentine's day, valloween, vice
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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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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Tags: failure, second chances, self improvement
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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