Over the last few months, I have found myself wondering very much the same thing. Many things have happened, and are indeed continuing to happen that continuously lead me to get if not distracted, then feeling like there is much more I could do here. How often does it happen to you that you find yourself thinking, “well I could have done better than that”, or even more, “I know I can do better than that”? The article Why can’t you pay attention anymore? has brought many of those types of questions back into mind. So are all those electronic contrivances of our daily lives leading to a state of disparate thoughts that never lead to anything all that fruitful…?

I’d like to think that this is not entirely true. More that all these meanderings on the internet for one, all those electronic gadgets that are now such an intrinsic part of our day to day lives, the technology that we use and develop at work (and in our own spare time), can lead to a wealth of ideas and innovations, to a betterment of the existing ways of doing things.

In saying that, and again partly in line with the article, and as is good practice in general day to day life, to do things with a certain degree of moderation. Moderation in this case, can lead to a greater degree of productivity and general well being.

Use and benefit from technology, but dont let it lead your life. The country ways have thought me that

Linus Torvald’s commenting on why he is using a mac G5 processor ,

“Oh, and part of it is that I got the machine for free,” said Torvalds. “I’m really a technology whore.”

Arent we all

This is a well clever little use of one of the most useful things around. It helps you fix things, and stick things together, and now it can help you hold your cash

In this Duct tape wallet…

For a long time I had been looking at how to configure keyboard shortcuts under Gnome and metacity. Eventually I found this site, GNOME Hacks, which has a wealth of interesting bits, and more especially this which tells you how to defineshortcuts in metacity.

Well useful

Although kinda pricey. this would be well cool to have. Who knows, you could even make it practical

GNR8 new/s: heliodisplay

I’ve always thought that motorbikes had something kinda cool about them. This link takes it to another step though…

Unix on bike

Drifting through the infamous and wonderful internet, came across this glow brick. It looks well cool, and will hopefully acquire one of them sometime in future…