Day: July 12, 2003

Just moved to digital cable today (10 minute visit by cable folks… nice), and caught 30+ minutes of Bill Cosby — Himself. So very, very funny… and the parts on parenting and childbirth are even funnier once you’ve been there. Best quote: “I am not the boss of my house. … And I don’t want the job.” Out of context, probably doesn’t have you rolling on the floor laughing. Trust me. See it when you can, or see it again.

Imagine having enough data that you need to send a full PC through the mail as a modern version of the floppy. This interview touches on a lot of future architectural challenges in technology, but the specific tale is interesting, too. [found via ongoing]

Never read this blog before, but nice pointer from RedMonk 2.0 led me to a description of Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder, aka NADD. I’m not a programming nerd, but I probably qualify in most other regards. I heartily agreed with this:

2) Weblogs are designed for those with NADD. The web digested into short little blurbs of information. NADD heaven. My guess would be that the population of regular webloggers is mostly NADD-afflicted. Otherwise, they’d be writing books… not paragraphs… at random times of the day… always.

…who’s reading. Which is why I keep certain things off my blog, like most people, I think. I don’t know if anyone at work knows about my personal blog (very few know about my work blog), but I am careful to write nothing that I could not live with seeing on my boss’s monitor (or his boss’s monitor). Same goes for family. I have one, and they are here, but only in outline/shadow most of the time… deliberately.

I was thinking about what I write a bit more as time gets more precious. I like living up to daily posting, although I sometimes find myself making this “work” not pleasure. I need the discipline, and I like seeing every day in the calendar linked. Simple stuff, but there it is. What I have not done here is focus. The jambalaya (a dish I’ve never tried) of information I present is less than I want it to be, both in original thinking and organization. But this is one area where I don’t want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, so I’ll keep posting “lite” going while I get my bearings again as part of a family of four instead of three.

This HR blog from the Boston Globe seems a bit odd, but Scoble points out the germane question: “are you freaked out about webloggers?”

Too bad we all can’t sleep for 90 minutes every day after lunch. But we did today.