Wow, the favourites are out before the tour is even started.
Risk
NASA Chief: Risk Inherent in Shuttle Flight.
Right on! For Michael Griffin.
DUH! To the people who think space flight is routine and safe, and need to be reminded that these brave astronauts know and accept the risk for the betterment of humankind.
Info Whore
I am the first one to admit it, I am an information junkie. I read everything in front of me, even if it has no relevant to my work, my hobbies, etc. The problem is that there are only so many hours in a day for reading, after taking time to sleep, eat, commute, and work.
I frequent two cell phone forums (HowardForums and My-Symbian.com), one home theater forum (AVS Forum), two news sites (CNN and BBC), and numerious other sites that have no RSS feeds to read. At last count I have 100+ feeds in endo, I am subscribed to three *active* mailing list (6A ProNet, XP Programming, Agile Testing), and regular emails.
And that is just electronics infomation. For paper-based information, I have two weekly magazines (New Scientist and Autosport), one monthly (Home Theater Magazine), and at least one book to read.
Some people (Ok, most) will consider this information overloading. For me, I don’t think I have enough! Given more hours in a day, I’ll gladly read more in-depth news stories, analysis, commentaries, financial information, sports, etc. The list goes on. The more I read the less I feel I know enough. So I get very frustrated when talking to friends who have to inclination to discover what is happening around them, let alone sit down and read. How can they hold an even semi-intelligent conversation, or make informed decision about the environment, personal finance, or the direction the country should take?
Am I the minority who feel this way about the general population?
Vox
Check out my Vox site. Vox is a new service from the great team Six Apart. I was invited to ‘preview’ Vox because I am a TypePad customer. Vox is definitely aimed squarely at MySpace since it performs pretty much the same function, aggregating all my online life be it blog posts, photos, music, movies, etc. The big difference is that Vox does it in much slicker, much more integrated, and less ad intrusive ways.
If 6A continues improving Vox I’ll definitely consider switching from TypePad to Vox. Now where is that feedback button on Vox so I can request a TypePad import functionality…
Rein of Terror has ended
The week of being the boss-man has ended for me. My bosses were in TechEd in Boston this week so I have to be in charge during the last five days. Not really that stressful (nothing like when I was working at JPMorganChase) since it basically involved managing eight developers and four QA engineers during product release week. So it is just a simple matter of juggling priority and resources while keeping the CTO informed and happy.
At least I have my shiny new Nokia E61 to play with throughout the week as a distraction. Despite some minor bugs and quirks, this phone is definitely the best smartphone I have used thus far. Build is solid with great RF performance, as expected from Nokia, while the gorgeous screen and true multi-task Symbian OS means I actually become more focus on what I can do than baby-sitting the stupid Palm OS from crashing! The only problem is to fine a nice carrying case for it. The Krusell case I ordered earlier in the week arrived today but it is too thick for the slim E61. I’ll try it out for a week or so to see how well it works with my everyday usage, but the search continues.
Yesterday Nokia released their podcast software for beta testing. Works perfectly and I am able to pull most of the podcasts on my phone (except iTunes Music Tuesday which is encoded in m4a format that E61’s music player doesn’t support). I can’t wait for my stereo headset/phones to arrive so I can listen to podcasts on my E61 for the commuting when I don’t want to carry my iPod, such as trip to the golf course.
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