I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
Here is a funny quote from the comment on predictive text (think: T9) in the discussion about Android and mobile devices on Slashdot:
Predictive text helps a bit but sometimes it gets things so ducking wrong that I am sure the people who program it are a deliberately unhelpful bunch of ducking aunts.
Maybe I should adopt some sort of predictive text plugin for WordPress for those times when I feel like swearing…
What do you spend more more on: your Internet connection bills or your car’s fuel? Use monthly periods. How does that change if you consider all extras for your Internet connection (web hosting and other web services, extra services from your ISP, extra bandwidth utilization charges, etc) and extras for your car maintenance (oil, service, car wash, etc)?
(I came up with these questions while reviewing my spending statistics at Wesabe, which is an excellent service. The basis for comparison of fuel to Internet connection lies in both of these being vital for many modern citizens, while they are currently mutually exclusive – you don’t use Internet while driving and you don’t use your car while using the Internet. Not just yet.)Â
(Side note: punctuation in product names sure makes headlines confusing)
Mashable has a post about upcoming Yahoo Life!
The premise is this: take Yahoo Mail, and make it the hub of your daily online activities; turn e-mail addresses into social profiles; connect e-mail to other services, and use the info from the contacts in these services according to the context.
This sounds good. This sounds like exactly what I need. Of course, there is a “but”:
It sounds and looks great, but we can’t know how well it works until the product actually goes live.
OK, we have to wait and see. But I see that this niche will get a bit crowded pretty soon. With all those web services and social networks more and more people are coming online. Social connections will be more and more important, and therefor we’ll see more and more tools that do this. There are some specialized tools for these purposes already, but none of them have enough functionality and momentum to lead the way yet. Hopefully it will change sooner than later. And, hopefully, Google will play some major role in this too…
Caught this excellent quote in gaping void post:
A lot of people in business say they have twenty years experience, when in fact all the really have is one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.
Well said, indeed. I’m working with computers for 15 years or so. I’d say I have only about five years of experience with these damn things.
Web Worker Daily quotes The New York Times:
But by 2006, according to data collected by the Dieringer Research Group, a marketing research company in Brookfield, Wis., more than 28 million Americans were working from home at least part time — an increase of 10 percent from just the year before, and 40 percent from 2002. The American Home Furnishings Alliance reports that 7 in 10 Americans now have offices or designated workstations in their homes, a 112 percent increase since 2000. And a recent survey by the National Association of Home Builders found that home offices ranked as the fourth most important feature in a new upscale home, just ahead of security.
It’s always nice to have some numbers, no matter how obvious the trend is.