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David Weinberger: Blogs and salad bars

David Weinberger has a short, funny commentary on the explosion of blogs -- and of the expectation by anyone who starts a blog that everyone they know should be keeping up with every word they post.

Very funny and true, but this wonderful sentence in particular jumped out as the best summation of modern media bloat I've heard in a while:

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TOPICS: Links

'Getting Things Done...FAST!' audio

"Getting Things Done...FAST!" audio

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Activity and Time Capture

Activity and Time Capture

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Anti-Distraction-Vana for Windows

Anti-Distraction-Vana for Windows

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TOPICS: Windows

Site flatulence being treated

The randy clusters of zeroes and ones which power the index cards which run the servers which make the 43 Folders blog come to your home computer set have apparently decided to unionize without telling anyone. Consequently, I suspect a wildcat strike may be behind a lot of the unreliable site behavior in the last day or so. So it goes.

I’m on it. I have bought the zeroes and ones an ice-cold keg of Miller Lite to keep them occupied while I’m upgrading to WordPress 2 and spinning the giant wheel that decides which of the 1400 or so plugins I have are now incompatible with each other. Yay, Wednesday! I rule.

Anyhow, I’ll post again here when I get things straightened out, but things are very likely to break intermittently (read: a lot) throughout today, so it won’t offend me at all if you want to go take a nice walk, do a bit of correspondence, or perhaps teach a small child how to make a pirate hat out of a newspaper. Of course, you can still drop by the wiki, the board, or the store; they’re still non-unionized, work for hard candy, and are just happy to have a warm place to sit.

See you on the other side. One hopes.


Edit 2006-01-18 08:42:58: Oh. And apparently MacSlash linked here this morning, too, I now learn. I think I need more coffee.

Edit 2006-01-18 11:40:15: OK, I think things are mostly stabilized for now. You'll still hit little problems, but we're steadily up. Special thanks to Bryan and Ben at A2 Web Hosting. They continue to rule. More soon.

Edit 2006-01-19 10:58:50: Huzzah. We're 90+% back. We now return you to your regularly scheduled life hackery (with thanks for your patience with our awkward growing pains).

TOPICS: Admin

Is there a desktop sticky program like google?

Is there a desktop sticky program like google?

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TOPICS: Life Hacks

Sync Treo 700p with Google or Outlook?

Sync Treo 700p with Google or Outlook?

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456 Berea Street reviews _GTD_

Getting Things Done (Book review) | 456 Berea Street

Roger Johansson at 456 Berea Street has a short review of Getting Things Done that nicely captures the book's tactical practicality and the subsequent stress relief it can bring (which happens to be favorites of mine too):

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15 Minutes to Move Your Project Ahead

Here is a great link to Dmitri Zimine's blog about his 15 Minutes to Move Your Project Ahead. I have worked with Dmitri and he has put GTD to the test in his life as a software team manager.

http://www.softwarefrontier.com/2007/09/15-minutes-to-move-your-project-ahead.html

What to do with Old Letters, Memorabilia, Notes...

What to do with Old Letters, Memorabilia, Notes...

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