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June 02, 2005

Managing information

http://teekay.blogsome.com [Over at Teekays] I mentioned it was dirty, right? This is more of a support to my thinking than a clean, clear, and consistent conceptualization of anything. But it’s a pretty neat summary of what I do on my Mac — in fact, I could also assign average time values (e.g., hrs/day) to each application I use and each activity I undertake.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

Homepage.mac.comhttp://homepage.mac.com [Homepage.mac.com] The Committed Sardine Blog-Thinking Outside the Can: The hip-e node includes a 17" widescreen, high resolution flat panel LCD with a built in TV tuner and an integrated CD/DVD player; a high performance computer that can be set up either on the desktop or as a wall-mounted; a beatbox detachable speaker system with boombass amplificaton technology; it?s roadband ready with built-in Ethernet and WiFi wireless; it has a nodedock for wireless keyboard with Internet hot keys, wireless mouse, 7-in-one memory card read and docking bays; it includes 6 USB 2.0 ports, 1 firewire port, S-Video-In Port; optimized performance in an ultra thin form factor; and with a digital version of the Bluelight special, a crystal blue LED which serves as the hip-e sweepstakes light. Teens win free games, gifts and prizes when their light is illuminated, allowing for an engaging and fun experience.

Ronsilliman.blogspot.com[Ronsilliman.blogspot.com] Silliman's Blog: 12/01/2002 - 12/31/2002: Which makes me wonder aboutthe fate of the poetry of poetry today – it may very well be that we arecreating a collective oeuvre thatwill age at greatly differential rates down the road. Jonathan Mayhew the otherday in his blog characterized H.D.’s Hellenism as “kitsch” – yet its functionduring her lifetime was diametrically opposed to that very idea. Even now, ifyou look at the diverse poetics of, say, the early modernist period, it makesyou want to scratch your head. If I thumb through an anthology like HarrietMonroe’s New Poetry (Macmillan, 1917 &1923), the so-called “revolution of the word” is almost entirely absent.

http://teekay.blogsome.com [Teekay.blogsome.com] Over at Teekay’s: Tiger will be launched/loosened/set free/unleashed on the 29th. For the poor souls out there who have to deal with Windoze, Tiger’s the latest incarnation of Apple’s operating system X which has been running smoothly on my PowerBook G4 (15“ Titanium through 2003, when I passed it on to my wife when her Windoze machine bit the dust, from then on a 17” Aluminum) ever since it came out years ago. (The last drastic upgrade was Panther, which reached stores on 24 October 2003, our first wedding anniversary. We spent it queuing outside the Prince Street Apple Store, to celebrate.

http://teekay.blogsome.com [Teekay.blogsome.com] Over at Teekay’s :: May :: 2005: Because (a) my inbox gets leaner — fewer messages, fewer subfolders, which should also result in better responsiveness; (b) my archive is in a place where it can’t get corrupted by excessive ongoing operations; (c) I can establish a backup strategy that will make sure that both my bulky archive and my lean inbox are adequately safe (since backing up a 1.9 GB file like my present inbox is not something you do every day, even though I try); (d) I have different applications assigned to different activities, which makes it somehow conceptually cleaner. I also like Mail’s interface much better than Entourage’s, despite the fact that nobody else seems to like the new Tiger look, and Entourage, while generally a great mailing app, is crap slow when it searches for anything.

[Strange.mcmaster.ca] grockwel: Research Notes: Digital and Interactive Art Archives: These parallel the questions we have in literary theory around the authority of the author and their control over their work. The web (and blogging) makes it that much easier for fragments to be taken out of context. I would go further and say that you can't count on context on the web. I certainly missed the importance to Chris of the sequential evolution of his work working my way backward from the entry point.

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Posted at June 2, 2005 11:17 AM

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