For the next few days, until I launch the redesigned version of my blog, I won’t be posting. Please don’t send in the police to look for my body trapped under a pile of pizza boxes.
Susie has been asked to be the lead speaker at the first corporate blogging conference ever in Asia. It’s called “Corporate Blog Marketing Conference”—yeah, the name could use some work—and it’s taking place September 21st and 22nd.
Saw someone else famous last Thursday. This time: Julianna Margulies, TV star best known for playing Nurse Hathaway on E.R., and who recently appeared on Scrubs. She was walking around Yaletown.
Forgive the techno jargon, but I need a hand getting my new Web camera to work. I’ve got this cool Web camera, a Pan Tilt Zoom Dome Camera, model ACD-1500, sitting on my dining room table. And I’ve got this tiny, powerful video Web server, a BlueNet video server, model IVS-100. And they don’t speak to each other.
I was in the john, thinking thoughts and reading a detective novel, when I came across a long quote that triggered some musing about computers and revolutions.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)