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Sunday, September 22, 2002
I'm goin' in 
| | Heading this morning to Beverly Hills for two days at Digital Hollywood. They never sent me a press pass, but I'm sure I'm on the press list because I've been getting spammed by aggressive PR people who have no idea who I am or what Linux Journal is. They just know two things: 1) I'm supposed to be there; 2) They're not supposed to say where they got my name. Typical as this shit has always been, it still amazes me. |
| | I've kinda got a feeling that blogging this thing live isn't gonna happen (I'm imagining the exact opposite of an O'Reilly conference), but hope creeps eternal, so I'm bringing along a base station, just in case. |
Radon love
| | We're moving in a few days, and one of the minor ordeals we need to go through before we leave is a radon test. This doesn't require leaving the home, just keeping all the windows shut. No ventilation allowed. No movement of air, either, if we can avoid it. |
| | We need to close the house for 48 hours. I'll be gone for most of that time, but not for the first 9 hours or so. |
| | The test is underway now. I've opened the radon collection cannisters in all the rooms, and now I'm sitting here in my office, where no air is stirring and it's about 85 degrees. It'll be a little warmer in the bedroom, where I expect to get maybe 3 hours of sleep before getting up around 5am to drop the kid off at some friends' house and then drive down to Beverly Hills. Lots of work left to do, and I haven't begun to pack, either. Meanwhile, I'm so tired that little blobs are floating across my vision while I look at the screen. |
Knowing Jack
DysinformationWeek
| | A larger problem in a business environment is the amount of time people will spend on the blogs they feel compelled to monitor, and worse, create. How long will it be before people are E-mailing us hyperlinks to their blogs? As it is, we spend a large part of our day wading through stuff to find the achingly infrequent important messages. It's gotten so bad that I sometimes think the two worst inventions of the past hundred years are E-mail and the Xerox machine. To badly paraphrase Winston Churchill, never in the field of human endeavor have so many wasted so much to obtain so little. |
| | Good point. I won't waste any more of your time with it. |
| | But I'll still thank Phil Windley, a blogging CIO that anybody with half a clue would love to work for. "Because of blogs," Phil says, "I know more about my organization and I hope my organization knows more about me and my thoughts and motives. I don't see how that can be bad." |
Wil's new way
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