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

Year: 2003

  • Watching the Tour de France…

    In fact, I’m trying to finish something here so I can go into the living room and turn on the TV.

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  • Push button publishing… but the…

    It’s early Thursday morning, and I just noticed that my Tuesday posts didn’t get published online. I didn’t post anything yesterday (Wednesday), so that gap in the calendar is real/deliberate, but this is mildly annoying. Over the weekend, I regenerated my entire website because of this problem. We’ll see if this boring update goes through.

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  • PowerBook arrived

    Now it’s time to figure out how to effectively use two computers together, for everything from email to blogging to music to photos. It may be time to dig beneath the OS X covers (uh oh), since Unix plumbing is intended for this kind of usage. Any sites with compelling details of how to successfully…

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  • How would you rank MacOS…

    Over at About.com, Heinz rates his top 10 Windows News Aggregators. I didn’t read carefully enough, so I was looking for NetNewsWire, and was disappointed/surprised. Of course, NNW is only for MacOS, so it didn’t make the list. I haven’t tried more than three on MacOS X. NetNewsWire – Written as if the developer was…

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  • The PowerBook is coming

    Finally broke down and ordered the laptop computer I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. My choice? The 12″ one, for price and portability reasons. Having seen my sister’s, I know it’s still relatively heavy, but beats my G4/400 in most ways. Most interesting part to me, in this global world (yes, that’s…

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  • Decision making is not a…

    I appreciated this PeterMe.com post, both for the text and for the appropriately looping illustration.

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  • 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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