Remainders

Here are some of the things I have added to my del.icio.us list lately that I wanted to share with all:

Gladwell.com: The Social Life of Paper – “Had the computer come first — and paper second — no one would raise an eyebrow at the flight strips cluttering our air-traffic-control centers”

Fortune: Secrets of greatness: How I work – “E-mail and voicemail; yoga and personal assistants; structure and grooving: A dozen accomplished people tell what works for them.”

Writely Acquired by Google – “We like lava lamps and they’re pretty much standard decor at Google.”

What Google’s acquisition of Writely means – “Google knows that most people don’t need the full Microsoft Office collection. They don’t even need most of it. They don’t even need half of each product.”

If all that isn’t enough, we now know that…

Your Home Office Can Kill Your Brain – “I resolve to put on some Prince and dance for a good five minutes as a break today. Preferably to the songs ‘7′, ‘Gitt Off’ and ‘Sexy MF’ and while dancing with the cat who will think I finally lost that last marble.”

True Tales of Geek Woe

It must just be the season. There are some really fun and entertaining tales of install issues, hardware crashes and other tales of geek woe over at the Geek Gather blog. Take for instance:

  • The Ubuntu Adventure – What happens when you put a geek in a room with a few dying iBooks, a Linux CD and some time?
  • The Dell Experiment – When ZIF sockets and thermal paste go horribly wrong.
  • Infinite Loop – “Dammit Jim! I’m a podcaster not a routing specialist!”

You can find these and many other geek tales at http://geekgather.org/blog