clock … watching time, the only true currency

I’m listening to the boy and the girl entertain each other. At 4:55, the hands of the clock were directly opposite each other, so the boy thought it was 6:00am, and launched into his usual “I’m awake, please come get me.” I went down and told him to keep sleeping, it wasn’t yet time. Twenty [...]

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One year ago, I started clock. And I turned 32. Amazingly enough, as I turned 33, I’m still writing clock. I haven’t posted every day, but this is item 446, so some discipline has prevailed. Enough with the blog-navel-gazing. Lesson for today: be careful what you ask for.

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So I see Simon Willison raving about Quicksilver, and my first thought is “Aha, someone else has read Stephenson’s latest.” But no, Simon is referring to a LaunchBar-like application which is free, and — if the blog hype is to be believed — better!?! I’ve downloaded the application, and I’ll try to use it in [...]

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Lawrence Lee, of Userland and Tomalak’s Realm, did reply to my query about the future of Radio. Thanks, Lawrence. Seems most of the energy, recently, has gone to supporting the infrastructure and easing the start-up for new bloggers… which makes sense given that this is still very much a nascent market. But I’ll have to [...]

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Installed Mac OS X 10.3.3 last night. So far, so good (knocking on…).

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NPR’s Neal Conan reads listener mail on Talk of the Nation (apparently a Monday task). Today, one reader asked how he could trust anything on the internet. Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia University new media professor and a columnist for the media Web site, Poynter.org, runs through some obvious good ideas (check facts, etc.) and then [...]

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I’ve been using Radio Userland for my blog for a while. I actually tried it first back in 2000, around when the boy was born… I’m not sure it was even called Radio then. I’ve been publishing this blog for nearly a year, and my year license is about to expire. That event is triggering [...]

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Glad to see Technorati take another step forward. Still labelled beta, but clearly much further along than previously. Good luck Rich, David, Dan, et al.

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Yeah, I finally caught up with the rest of the you and watched Lost in Translation (thank you, Netflix). A quiet movie that didn’t drag = worth the time. And, maybe, the hype. (Although I dislike the pop-up on their website trumpeting the awards the film has won. If you’re that thrilled, put it on [...]

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Clayton Christensen recognized that he hit a home run with The Innovator’s Dilemma. A smart man, he swings at a similar pitch the next time around. With Michael Raynor (previously a student of Christensen’s) as a co-author, Christensen wrote The Innovator’s Solution. Where Dilemma was more description, Solution adds prescription. In other words, what the [...]

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