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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: July 12, 2003

  • Don’t forget how funny Bill…

    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…

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  • Sneaker Net writ large

    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]

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  • Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder

    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…

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  • You never know…

    …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…

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  • HR blog

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

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  • Family nap

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

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