I’m so darn proud of my class this semester that I couldn’t contain it, so I brag about their Web sites. A number of them are going to continue building out the sites after the class ends.
Well, the Y2K bug is here, and about damn time, I say. It was looking nip and tuck for a while, but I carried the flame, I knew that this year was going to Hell in a handbasket, and Mr. Doom-seer was right after all. Look who’s laughing now!
A few of you have been asking me for a Christmas list this year, and I’ve had a really hard time thinking one up. So after giving it serious consideration, I’ve decided to put only one thing on my list this year. The gift of charity.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)