Journal
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W3
On this day 20 years ago the World Wide Web was made available to the public. Here is the original link to the world’s first public domain website which highlights the goals of the CERN team. Does anyone else miss the dial-up modem noise?
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The Internet circa 1938
“The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. “This new all-human cerebrum need not be concentrated in any one single place. It can be reproduced exactly and fully, in Peru, China, Iceland, Central Africa,…
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Deprived
I need consistent sleep and I am not getting it.
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Down
I need inspiration and motivation right now
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Minimal Bookshelf
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King For the longest time I collected and hoarded books. I loaded up bookshelves, totes and closet space to store them. But after moving around the country a few times those books began to become a burden and no…
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Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
Time to update
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Digital Moderation
You know what I learned from my one week digital cleanse? Moderation. After a self-mandated abstinence from digital media I had almost 1000 blog feed posts waiting for me. 5,000 tweets and numerous G+ posts. I redeemed my time by reading physical books, right-sizing the…
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Digital House Cleaning
Since my digital sabbatical started yesterday morning, I’ve decided to clean up and purge a few things. I removed the Linux and Windows 7 partitions and did a clean install of Ubuntu 13 Beta Raring Ringtail as the primary operating system. Also added Virtualbox. Inside…
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Run On Sentences
Due to the schizophrenic weather, I am not running. However, I just purchased a book on running for beginners. Why do I feel like I am running backwards?
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Schizophrenia
86 and muggy by day, tornadoes at night. 40 degree drop in temps the next day. Where is Spring?
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Digital Cleanse
After the mental stress of sending off the tax check I sat down to the laptop and mindlessly surfed the internet for an hour. Right then I declared it is time for me to cleanse and purge. As I consumed large quantities of posts, tweets,…
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Meditation
I’m finding small ways to lower stress and enhance my calm such as meditating. I would suggest a minimum of 2 minutes in a quiet spot and focus on breathing, nothing else. I use my Android’s built in timer but you can simply use whatever…