Captain Dave Barry strikes again! In case you didn’t know today is officially Talk Like A Pirate Day. So get to it!
The authoritative site: Ahoy!
Archives for September 2004
Everything you wanted to know…
…about blogging but were afraid to ask:
simonworld.mu.nu/archives/037779.php…
GI Squirrel
Cute. That is all. :)
Wikipedia
Made my first contribution to the Wikipedia last night/today by correcting, enhancing and adding to a couple of the pages: one about Yosemite, the other about National Parks which references Yosemite.
Yosemite National Park
National Park
Lots of stuff going around the blogosphere lately about the Wikipedia and how reliable it is (or isn’t, depending on your viewpoint). Probably in a year or two it’ll be at least as accurate as any recent treeware version for non-active entries, assuming publishers of said treeware don’t sue the Wiki out of existence because some people are copying verbatim from the text of their dead-tree version(s).
Personally, I’m not too worried about the Wiki’s authority because no one should rely on a single Internet-based source for accurate information; two or three sources, at least, should be considered good practice, just like with non-Internet-based resources. The people that do rely on Wikipedia for 100% authoritative info are probably the same people who rely on television or print media, both of which tend to get their info from the same one or two sources these days, for accurate information.
How to stop procrastinating
Link: merlin.blogs.com…
Perfect for the geeks in the audience but likely applicable to anyone with a fondness for procrastination.
Excerpt:
The Problem with “stuffâ€
Getting Things Done succeeds because it first addresses a critical barrier to completing the atomic tasks that we want to accomplish in a given day. That’s “stuff.†Amorphous, unactionable, flop-sweat-inducing stuff. David says:
Here’s how I define “stuff:†anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn’t belong where it is, but for which you haven’t yet determined the desired outcome and the next action step. [pg. 17]
Stuff is bouncing around in our heads and causing untold stress and anxiety. Evaluation meetings, bar mitzvahs, empty rolls of toilet paper, broken lawn mowers, college applications, your big gut, tooth decay, dirty underwear and imminent jury duty all compete for prime attention in our poor, addled brains. Stuff has no “home†and, consequently, no place to go, so it just keeps rattling around.
Worst off, we’re too neurotic to stop thinking about it, and we certainly don’t have time to actually do everything in one day. Jeez Louise, what the hell am I, Superman?
So you sprint from fire to fire, praying you haven’t forgotten anything, sapped of anything like creativity or even the basic human flexibility to adapt your own schedule to the needs of your friends, your family or yourself. Your “stuff†has taken over your brain like a virus now, dragging down every process it touches and rendering you spent and virtually useless. Sound familiar?