Friday, January 2, 2004

Cringely: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back Cringely gives himself a generous 80% on last year's predictions, and makes a few for 2004 in "Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Bob's Predictions for 2004" Not a bad set of guesses, all in all. 5:59:23 PM

The Best of O'Reilly's OnLAMP O'Reilly and Associates host a hopping web site along with publishing all of those books with the intriguing animals on the cover. Fellow Foxer Ed Leafe points out a column by chromatic summarizing his picks for The Best Articles of 2003. Check out the articles - there's some good stuff in there! 2:00:55 PM

Fight clutter: store it better -- or throw it away! Michelle Slatalla writes a great column at the [New York Times: Technology page on Clutter Combat: Containing the Enemy. "Enough containers are available on the Web to help tame the clutter in any closet." There is, however, another solution. With support and encouragement from Laura, I've spent the past month cleaning out all of the cruft that accumulated in an old office, in preparation for moving in with new furniture and a new iMac. While it was challenging at first, and there's still a small ton of paper to shred (I can't believe how many pieces of paper have my SSN on them!), major progress has been made, and the place is actually looking pretty good! 1:58:32 PM

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