Tag: technology
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drowning in information
Most software is a waste of my time. I need software that doesn’t make me fork my attention away from the consumption of information in order to learn how to use the bells and whistles. What I need are tools that support methods that work. I need accuracy, rapidity, quality, and flexibility in my software…
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Is the IT office filled with morons?
So Slashdot is running this article about some lifelong Mac user who is ranting about the Windows operating system’s proclivities to accept malicious mobile code and sphere. This study was released recently claiming that the U. S. Economy loses $ annually in employee productivity to SPAM. Come on. First off, I’m not a huge fan…
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the end of the desk?
I have a wireless laptop, and have been wireless for something approaching three years now. During that time, my need for and use of a traditional desk has progressively diminished. The idea of sitting at a desk to accomplish anything has started to become outmoded in my mind, and my idea of the perfect office…
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Bad Guys
So I just sunk the better part of four days into playing Killzone on my PS2. It, like all other kill or be killed video games has two faults – the AI is not so smart, and the go-here-do-this excuse for a story that makes you hit check-points and accomplish “missions”. Neither of which would…
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what Google could do…
okay… so Google has all this stuff that they have bought up – Orkut, Blogger, Babelfish, the desktop apps Keyhole and Picasa, the desktop search engine, gmail… lots of stuff. (David Allen’s stuff definition: “anything that doesn’t belong where it is, but for which you haven’t yet determined the desired outcome and the next action…