Tag: productivity

Bookmarks for December 4, 2009

  • Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
    I'm in two minds about whether to use them or not. But it's good that there's a DNS provider I can fall back on if my ISP's DNS goes tits up that isn't sodding OpenDNS.
  • Don't give DVD box sets as gifts – Slate Magazine
    Heh. I have an absolute *stack* of unwatched TV, and yes, it is daunting, to the point that basically, I'd rather rewatch an odd episode here and there of something I've already watched, than crack open the start of five seasons worth of something else. Starting a totally new show feels like a serious time commitment, whilst rewatching something old is a way to pass a spare 40 minutes. And mostly all I have is the odd spare hour here and there that needs filling up.

Bookmarks for November 24, 2009

Bookmarks for August 27, 2009

  • Five Geek Social Fallacies
    Let us play a fun game, in the name of encouraging clear thinking, and making us all better and more functional human beings. The above website is a list of five basic errors of thinking that geeks often make in regard of social situations. So: go, read, then cam back and tell me: which of these do *you* suffer from, and what can you do about it? I for example, suffer from a bit of #2, which tends to manifest itself as a bloody minded tendency to be a bit "this is who I am, and if you don't like me then kindly fuck off". And what I do about it is to periodically remind myself that I am not actually perfect, whatever I might think, and that it is possible to like flawed people.
    Tags: culture, geek
  • The secret names of London
    Or something like that, anyway. I've probably linked this before, but I don't care, it's worth linking again, if only for the Lovecraftian horror of "Aleph and Tentacles".
    Tags: london, tube, funny, map
  • Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers.
    I know I get more done if I am permitted to multi-task. Not all those tasks are work, but I do a lot of my best thinking as a background process. Plus it should be screamingly obvious that happier, more relaxed and most o fall better informed people are just plain more useful in a wider variety of contexts.

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