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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 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.

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.

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 Exchange server to be useful is the most aggravating thing imagineable when you are working remotely, especially via dial-up (which is, of course, excruciating under any circumstances once you’ve become accustomed to broadband). Still, seems like a quixotic project to me.

Read Cameron’s report on Bill of Rights for Web Services, Panel, with Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Jeff Barr, Amazon.com (didn’t know he had left his consulting gig to go to work for Amazon full-time), and Jeffrey McManus, eBay. I’ll have to look around for other news from the OSCON conference.

Convert an image into HTML or ASCII text. Fun stuff. Of course, I don’t have a logo or other iconic images to translate, but I’ll find something.

Small Initiatives perked my interest in Word HTML Cleaner. I’ll have to try it sometime, since it’s sometimes useful to write in Word, but the HTML is godawful ugly.

CNN story “Geniuses, criminals do best work in their 30s” forces me to ask… does this count double for criminal geniuses?

Sorry, had to go there. 😉