THE WRITTEN RECORD

Author: Chris

The Best Laid Plans

Where did they go? Its been a long five years since I’ve lost a lot. I have been doing everything else trying to get back to that life by taking on the odd job here and there and doing things…

Journal

17 + 22

Today, May 4th marks the 17th anniversary that I married the WonderWife. Tomorrow, May 5th makes it a total of 22 years together. I love you, Jenny.

Journal

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Just working on the computer and listening to Pink Floyd. In other words, I am not really working, just absorbing the sounds.

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Twitter 7.0

Today marks the seventh year of TWTTR. As an early adopters back then we didn’t know what we were doing but we had fun exploring it and making it ours. Over the years, like all social media platforms it has…

Technology

Today

Abort, retry or fail?

Journal

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…

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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…

Technology

Deprived

I need consistent sleep and I am not getting it.

Journal

Down

I need inspiration and motivation right now

Journal

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…

ReadingTechnology

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…

Technology

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…

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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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Attitude Adjustment

The next time you adjust a setting, think twice. Sometimes it’s better to change yourself to appreciate the defaults than to change the defaults to suit you.

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