clock — watching time, the only true currency

Nothing like squeezing 50+ hours into four days of work to get you ready for vacation. I left things as tidy as possible at the office, and I found out about one of the coolest things I’ve seen: Remote Desktop Connection. I was recently upgraded to WindowsXP Professional on my office laptop. Now, after some [...]

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How to recognize blog software by its URL and, separately, deconstructing article URLs. Enjoyable reading for me. Scary, isn’t it?

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How do you do it? I’ve got my rotating set of 4-5 passwords, one or two of which I try to use only in secure places, but it does get complicated when you need to remember one months later. We’re all still human.

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For over two years, I’ve managed — first indirectly, then directly — CNET News.com Investor and a corresponding private-label financial website (and print) business, known internally as “Private Wires.” After several months of work, I’m pleased that our new arrangement has been publicly announced. CNET sold the private label business to Financial Content. In a [...]

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Long review on a recent Nielsen/Norman Group report. I’m going to read this now. I already know I would love to read/hear Jakob’s response.

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I don’t know if it is coincidental or not, but Tim Bray decided to write about metadata just days after Christopher Lydon’s interview with David Sifry, in which Sifry, too, spoke eloquently about the power of metadata. Bray hits a few notes I know from bitter experience, too.
Historically, the difficulty of collecting metadata at source [...]

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Tim Howard is going to be one of the Manchester United goalkeepers. The NYTimes article mentions how Kasey Kellar and Brad Friedel paved the way. Friedel was named the best keeper in the English Premier League for last season. He was a high-school classmate of one of my best friends, and my wife was a [...]

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I must have seen this linked on at least five blogs I read via NNW. So why not add to the fun? BBC: Loss of e-mail ‘worse than divorce’
Not scientific (800 techies), and not accurate (sponsored by Veritas, in an effort to sell more email backup software), but even the BBC knows how to draw [...]

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It must have been amusing to write this CNN/Money story: “Nudity takes off“. My favorite quote?
Cost for a suite: $2,500 per week, including tax but not sun screen.

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I shared this plumbing story with two colleagues at work today. I’m glad to read that all’s well that ends well. Not my cup of tea.

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