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

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

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Get home from work, play games with Ben, go for a walk with him to pick up dinner, he goes off to bed with a smile on his face. After eating my cheesesteak, I take Paton. 90 minutes later, she’s still crying. Argh.

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Glow is an open-source GUI calendar effort. I can’t really tell without looking around more whether it’s going after the Exchange calendaring server stuff, but honestly, that’s the part of Outlook that I appreciate most: scheduling meetings. The email part is nothing special. I dislike the archive format immensely, and the constant connection to the…

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