Digital Life

Looks like we've got a pretty big storm coming in this evening, complete with wind and flood advisories. I guess I'd better get my shit done before I leave for work, cause I may or may not have power when I get home.

You know what the worst part about these storms is? We never lose power at the store. The rest of the town will be dark but nope, not us. Dammit.

Aka, holy crap there's a lot to do this week.

I'm trying to mitigate this issue at least a bit by front-loading my week. Hence why I haven't posted here yet. Unlike normal people, my weekends are Sunday and Monday, the two days I don't work. Yesterday was...wait, what did I do yesterday? Oh that's right, I did two homework assignments and the reading that went with that. And some work related to TFF, actually. But I'm not going to spoil that. (See, this is why having a completed tasks ...

...so no new content this weekend, sorry guys.

In the meantime, I have a question for you.

Do you read blogs regularly? If so, which ones? If not, why not?

Here are a few of my favorites:

Whatever
Making Light
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist

That should keep you busy for awhile. Feel free to discuss further in the comments!

Or properly titled, why I have decided not to export my journal.

Sure, a blog can be anything, including a journal. But in my experience, the more successful blogs have two things journals lack: structure and content. Structure as in regular posts, be it daily, weekly, monthly, whatever. And content in that it's more than a daily record. In all the blogs I regularly read, generally there is a focus on a topic or a small number of topics and a platform for discussion about anything ...

You know what boggles my mind? In this era of digital technology, we still have to do a lot of stuff manually. Take Windows, for example. My current system came equipped with Windows Vista. It was the only system that supported the hardware at the time so I was stuck with it. Honestly over the years I haven't really had any problems using it, unlike apparently the rest of the world.

So as you can imagine, my computer's getting a bit long in the tooth. It's 4 years old now, but I chose ...