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Aardvark Firefox Extension

A perfect tool for web designers to check out the layout on sites.

Aardvark Firefox Extension

"The Aardvark Firefox extension is a tool for web developers/designers as well as casual users."

GTD with Gmail (Part I)

If you don't know GTD, you should.

GTD with Gmail (Part I)

GTD with Gmail (Part I)

I’ve previously mentioned that I use Gmail to manage GTD. I thought it would be appropriate to explain my implementation for others to utilize, comment on and improve upon the process. David Allen’s famous first step is collection. He tells us to use as many inboxes as we need, but as few as we can get away with. I use two: my Hipster PDA and my Gmail inbox. The Hipster is for collection when electronic means aren’t feasible, i.e., away from the computer or when a collection-necessary idea presents itself while I’m too busy to open my email. At collection-time each Hipster index card is converted into an email. Otherwise, the thought goes straight into an email to ‘Me’ for processing as soon as possible. Important Note: ‘Me’ is the contact that points directly to my Gmail account. If you use forwarding addresses to your Gmail, sending yourself an email using the fowarding address will only place the email in ‘Sent’ which is a pain for processing. My point in this first step is identical to David Allen’s: clear your mind of anything that needs your attention and put it somewhere you trust. Tomorrow: processing from Gmail’s inbox.

The bloggiest newspapers I found were ...

New York Times archiving on the articles is hurting them ... they should wise up and open it up.

...My heart's in Accra : Ethan's Weblog - My blog is in Cambridge, but my heart's in Accra

The bloggiest newspapers I found were:
Christian Science Monitor - 134.90
New York Times - 63.08
Washington Post - 58.44
San Francisco Chronicle - 38.32
Boston Globe - 29.80
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 18.56
New York Post - 12.48
LA Times - 11.21"

Armstrong 5th in Tour de Georgia

Lance is just practicing for Tour De France 2005.

Armstrong 5th in Tour de Georgia

Armstrong 5th in Tour de Georgia

ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Lance Armstrong is ready to pass the peloton to a new group of American cyclists.

After the Tour de France, of course.

Armstrong was a team player Sunday, helping fellow American Tom Danielson win the Tour de Georgia in Alpharetta, Ga., for the biggest victory of his fledgling career.

As for Armstrong, his focus is firmly on France, where he hopes to add to his already unprecedented streak of six straight wins on the Champs-Elysees before fading into retirement.

"The object remains the Tour, and I think I'm on track," Armstrong said. "I didn't think I was good enough to win (the Georgia race), but I felt better toward the end of the race than I did at the beginning, so that's a good sign."

Armstrong, wearing No. 1 on the back of his jersey, settled for 22nd place on the day and fifth overall. He was 1 minute, 42 seconds behind Danielson, his Discovery Channel teammate.

"It's time for a new crop, a new generation," Armstrong said.

Danielson, a 27-year-old former mountain biker who joined the team this season, grabbed the lead Saturday during a grueling climb up Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia. With no chance of winning, Armstrong joined the rest of the team in a supporting role, ensuring that the yellow-shirted Danielson stayed out of trouble and close enough to the front to guard his narrow lead over Levi Leipheimer.

"I knew I was in good hands," said Danielson, whose winning time was 26 hours, 57 minutes, 56 seconds.

Gordon Fraser beat a huge pack of riders to the finish line, edging Health Net teammate Greg Henderson of New Zealand. Leipheimer was 18th and Danielson 29th, but it didn't matter. The top 75 riders all were credited with the same time -- 4:59 -- for the final 125-mile stage.

"I'm just as happy to see the team win as I am to get an individual win," Armstrong said. "Tom is riding great."

Danielson was motivated to get into road cycling after seeing an advertisement featuring Armstrong, but he shot down any comparisons to Armstrong.

"There will never be another Lance Armstrong, that's for sure," Danielson said.

Online music lovers frustrated

The music companies will not do without DRM and a large set of people will not accept DRM. It's a losing battle for the music companies.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online music lovers 'frustrated'

Online music lovers frustrated

UK music lovers are getting frustrated with restrictions placed on digital music tracks once they buy them from online stores, says PC Pro magazine.

The magazine reported that people are also being turned off net music stores because of pricing and disappointing sound quality compared to CDs.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said legal music downloads rose by 900% in 2004.

Last week, the UK's official singles chart included sales of legal tracks.

Yet legal downloads are still fledglings in the music industry, accounting for two percent of the market, according to PC Pro's Nick Ross.

"What people don't understand is that when they buy an iPod or other digital music player, they're being tied into a system," said Mr Ross, deputy labs editor at PC Pro.

Watching complex programs on TV is good for you ...

Watching complex programs on TV is good for you ...

The New York Times > Magazine > Watching TV Makes You Smarter


"According to television lore, the age of multiple threads began with the arrival in 1981 of ''Hill Street Blues,'' the Steven Bochco police drama invariably praised for its ''gritty realism.'' Watch an episode of ''Hill Street Blues'' side by side with any major drama from the preceding decades -- ''Starsky and Hutch,'' for instance, or ''Dragnet'' -- and the structural transformation will jump out at you. The earlier shows follow one or two lead characters, adhere to a single dominant plot and reach a decisive conclusion at the end of the episode. Draw an outline of the narrative threads in almost every ''Dragnet'' episode, and it will be a single line: from the initial crime scene, through the investigation, to the eventual cracking of the case. A typical ''Starsky and Hutch'' episode offers only the slightest variation on this linear formula: the introduction of a comic subplot that usually appears only at the tail ends of the episode, creating a structure that looks like this graph. The vertical axis represents the number of individual threads, and the horizontal axis is time."