Posted in Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Rants, Start, VIPcomments, WFFF, Writing on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Intro
Well, it’s a Thursday. Once again, I’m at work early. I like the calm and quiet of the mornings. It allows me to think clearly, feel fully and breath with ease. I’ve been this way for a while, going back to working at the health club during college through the mid-90’s. I had mostly early [...]
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Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Geek, Humor, Life, Listening, NotHappening, Perspective, Questions, Rants, Writing on March 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I just added this as my Facebook status. “Toby is quagmire laden, feeling morose, exhausted, refreshed, enlightened, verbose, confused, capable, smart, hungry, thirsty, and finally some enchanted melancholy.”
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Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Pics, Praise, Start, VIPcomments, Writing on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
March 20 is today’s date. This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year). There are 286 days remaining. It’s the first day of Spring! It’s also plenty of other things. Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor - an [...]
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best slippery slope ever
“Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ’cause [...]
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Posted in Autodidactism, Geek, Humor on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
If you read this and say “Cool!”, you may have found your inner geek!
How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal
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Posted in Family, Friends, Geek, Ideas, Leadership, Life, Listening, NotHappening, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been following a lot of information for several years now. I do that with blogs, with RSS feeds, with alerts, with email newsletters, with a few hard copy magazine subscriptions, with some journals, and also a lot with listening in whatever way possible.
I’ve come to some conclusions.
I can change the world.
Everyone has the [...]
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I hope you enjoy this blog’s current theme for a few days. (For the geeks… you have to visit the web site to see it because the fun stuff doesn’t show up via RSS - you geeks!) It’s green and red and has snow falling. Really, it’s super faffy. [...]
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Posted in Geek on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
31507 kb/s down
1504 kb/s up
I’ll take it!
And, like any good American… “It’s still not fast enough!”
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Wow. I used all caps in the subject. Why?
From a geek’s perspective, the answer is DUH!
From the regular person’s perspective, maybe the commentary below will convince you. There is No Free Lunch: Change your password NOW! By Robert X. Cringely - - And, here’s the podcast/audio version, for those of you who don’t like to [...]
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Posted in Geek, Inspire, Praise on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
How cool is this?!?!
How to Change the World: TechShop: Geek Heaven
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Sir Isaac Newton once said:
I know not what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem tohave been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Geek, Praise on September 6, 2007 | No Comments »
August Wrap-up « WordPress.com
WordPress.com is where several of my blogs are hosted. They’ve continually improved their site, features, support and communication. This latest month’s wrap-up is another good example.
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Official Google Reader Blog: “We found it!”
The Google Reader Team just improved my experience reading blogs and following various RSS feeds - again. They did it this time by adding search.
Go figure, Google added search.
Well, it is unique in that it lets me search through the many feeds that I already follow, not [...]
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Posted in Geek, Praise, TechProfound on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Have you tried an iPhone? They nailed “cool” and a good browsing experience.
Have you tried Photosynth? They nailed “cool” and a good demo.
This lead me to ask, “Is iPhone using Photosynth?” If yes, nice work keeping that a secret. If no, nice competition to bring “cool” back.
No, I didn’t just say that, and I didn’t just [...]
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OK, I’m on MySpace and it’s kinda fun. I’m up there for the fun stuff. Isn’t that what a 35 year old bachelor is supposed to do… ‘n shit. (I’m pretty sure that’s the second time I’ve actually ”cussed” on my blog. Isn’t it fun.) I’ve got plenty of other more mature and more detailed info online. A guy’s [...]
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