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Procrastination Aaron Swartz commented on The Procrastination Paradox yesterday. With some amusing links, he also asks the big question: what’s the root cause? He comes up with one answer: There‰s only one explanation that makes sense: it‰s not anything intrinsic to the task, but the outside importance of the task that makes us procrastinate. But [...]

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Monday can be different If you are on vacation, Monday sure feels different. Of course, still reading all my feeds via NetNewsWire first thing, and checking my email (mostly spam, caught by Apple’s Mail), and trying to juggle playing with the boy and a bit of computer time.

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Are you perfect? NYTimes article Getting a Job in the Valley Is Easy, if You’re Perfect really gets you excited about the ‘recovery.’ Witness: Indeed, what qualifies as good news in the technology industry is not so much evidence of overall job gains, but signs that job losses have slowed considerably. Great…

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Meeting Adrian Adrian Holovaty shared the news on his blog that he and his wife were travelling to the West Coast, and he invited people to connect with him. I took him up on the invitation. Only had 25 minutes or so, in the middle of the workday, to welcome him at the office, but [...]

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Tough evening The boy is alright, but we did have to go to the emergency room this evening. He sliced himself enough that we didn’t feel comfortable trying to handle it. He’ll be fine. As usual, the emergency room took some time… he wasn’t the most urgent case. Bumps in the road = being a [...]

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Link parking I’m stealing the title from another blog (can’t remember which one), but here’s a host of links I’ve been meaning to record. This small bunch will clean out my inbox. I’ll leave my Safari bookmarks for another time. Tim Bray on OSCOM sessions, back in September, comments: The sessions (I thought) went well, [...]

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Slashdot thread on MyLastEmail.com I thought MyLastEmail.com sounded like a ridiculous idea. I beat Slashdot to this topic, where everyone except the original poster comes up with various reasons why this is a dumb idea. One area I hadn’t considered: how do you know the last email won’t be blocked as spam? Ouch.

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The making of Legos Fun Flash presentation of Lego construction… the actual construction of the Legos themselves. [via Emergic, via Boing-Boing]

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“rank, profession or occupation” A friend gave me the Forgotten English calendar for 2003 last Christmas, and I’ve been enjoying several of the words. On Saturday September 28, the word of the day was nannick, which means “to play idly, to fidget.” However, I saved that day’s page not because of the word, but because [...]

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The audience is reading Was it THX or Dolby that first started running those short promotional clips before the movie started touting how incredible the sound system is? “The audience is listening” is my memory of one of the tag lines. (Per Google, it’s THX.) I still think my audience can be counted on two [...]

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