For the next few days, until I launch the redesigned version of my blog, I won’t be posting. Please don’t send in the police to look for my body trapped under a pile of pizza boxes.
Susie has been asked to be the lead speaker at the first corporate blogging conference ever in Asia. It’s called “Corporate Blog Marketing Conference”—yeah, the name could use some work—and it’s taking place September 21st and 22nd.
Saw someone else famous last Thursday. This time: Julianna Margulies, TV star best known for playing Nurse Hathaway on E.R., and who recently appeared on Scrubs. She was walking around Yaletown.
Forgive the techno jargon, but I need a hand getting my new Web camera to work. I’ve got this cool Web camera, a Pan Tilt Zoom Dome Camera, model ACD-1500, sitting on my dining room table. And I’ve got this tiny, powerful video Web server, a BlueNet video server, model IVS-100. And they don’t speak to each other.
I was in the john, thinking thoughts and reading a detective novel, when I came across a long quote that triggered some musing about computers and revolutions.
“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.)