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Tue
25
Jan '05

For self important Techies

I’m having George Carlin flashbacks, what with ‘fuck’ or some derivative thereof being every other word. Besides that, the guy makes some good points. “Caustic” is definitely apropos.
Found this via Scoble – CausticTech has a rant that every techie should read and take to heart. Reading it is cathartic — I am sure […]

Tue
25
Jan '05

Another Blogger Fired

Another one bites the dust. Could we get more paranoid? Don’t answer that.

Jeremy C. Wright of Ensight was just fired from his job for blogging:

But, they fired me.

My Posts About Work

What did they fire me for? This post:

Getting to surf the web for 3 hours while being paid: Priceless.
Getting to blog for […]

Tue
25
Jan '05

Hello, Kitty

A cool story. Reminds me of my days on BITnet and xyzzy in college.
Xeni Jardin:
On John Perry Barlow’s blog today, this account of a random human connection by VoIP — testament to how technology can make this an oddly intimate planet.

I was sitting at my desk in New York on Wednesday night, writing a […]

Tue
25
Jan '05

Can you think better when you’re typing?

This is an excellent post with a lot of informative comments as well. Personally, for years I’ve known there was a difference in thought process between typing and writing: when I want to write poetry or anything drawn from the depths of emotion, reflection, and introspection, I handwrite; when I want to write and […]

Tue
25
Jan '05

Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer!

Cool idea. I’m not sure how much it adds to the whole kinesthetic feedback thing but it probably can’t hurt.
Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer!
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer.
It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you […]

Tue
25
Jan '05

Doing a 180

Kathy’s recent post, Creating Passionate Renters got me thinking about the whole 180 thing. And then today, I saw this terrific post on 43folders.com: Patching your personal suck. I realized there a couple of different ways of looking at the whole “I don’t want to suck” thing with 180 in mind: there’s the […]