A Few Recent Thoughts
Friday, March 10th, 2006Just a few thoughts I’ve had recently or that have come my way…
- Via Sašo:
In Terry Prattchet’s Discworld there was a nice sentence like “and then he was surprised like a man is surprised by something which he previously thought only happens to other people”.
- The Internet is important for me, because, just as with other forms of publishing technology before it, the burden of remembering things is placed on the network, rather than the individual.
- In my informal testing at work, between Firefox, Flock and Safari, Safari (with the Sogudi extension) wins in terms of just consumer satisfaction and comfort (for me anyway). The only thing I miss from Firefox and Flock are the “Type to search” feature (and, to a lesser extent, the live, incremental search via page indexing).
- Lucid dreaming might just gain me an extra 6 hours or so of productivity a day. I think that’s worth running into walls for.
- Flash is weird. Period.
- Open source developers might just be good at copying the innovations of others, but at least they’re really good at it. [RealPlayer video]
- It’s not important to take over the world — just leave a positive mark on it.
- People like what I do.