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- On More or Less Permanent HiatusAugust 11 2009
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Well, after another brief shpurt of blogging, I’ve decided to kind of suspend things on DJI in more or less permanent hiatus. The reason? Not that I don’t have anything in particular to say (which I do, at times), so expect the odd post in an irregular fashion.
No, the reason behind things is that I made a decision about a month ago, after looking at a picture of myself in the mirror, that, to be blunt, looked very different than the person I was 10 years ago.
Residency and medical training takes a toll, and having just completed a whole whack of it, I really have no excuse but to start living the advice I sometimes tell my patients.
Long story short: between parenting, work, and trying to deliberately live a healthier life – exercising, sleeping, and eating with intention and purpose– I find there’s not much else I have time for.
I guess there are probably a lot of reasons to whip myself back into a healthier version of myself, but like other people who have accomplished this, it doesn’t matter what the reason is as long as you do it.
I may return to blogging regularly at some point, but its hard to say when that will be. Thanks to everyone who have stuck around for 3 years, I’ll be sure to keep in touch.
Tony.
- Teens Not Twittering? Absolutely. Here’s the Evidence.July 13 2009
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No, I didn’t conduct the research myself, but as astutely pointed out by Ben Parr, the recent report commissioned by Morgan Stanley regarding one teen (and his friend’s) internet / technology related activities may seem the sweeping generalizations of a small group of individuals … but they do have some roots in evidence.
Well, that bit about teens not twittering anyway. Earlier last month, Caroline McCarthy pointed out an interesting study from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network.
What’s kind of interesting that isn’t mentioned in the original CNet article, is that the survey is made of 200 individuals who were members and consumers from the Participatory Media Network. I take this to mean that these are individuals who already have a bias to be tech-friendly and social-media minded.
And yet, out of those 200 individuals aged 19-24, only 22% of them were on Twitter.
However, in keeping with the Morgan Stanley report, which talks about teens being on social networks, 99% of those surveyed were also on social networks.
And I’m sure this is all just the tip of the iceberg (
- WolframAlpha, Where Are You?July 13 2009
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Time will tell if it was Bing’s inherent abilities or Microsoft’s deep-pockets spending that caused the initial bump of 8% in unique users after the first month — but its clear what is suffering from a lack of Buzz … Wolfram Alpha.
About two months after its initial launch, there’s been thundering silence from the blogosphere / socialstream on WolframAlpha’s computational awesomeness. And now, even with some buzzworthy stuff, it seems like its wholly underwhelming [not being a stats nut, I will take WebWare's take on VORPs for example].
While WolframAlpha was never meant to in any way replace Google, its got to be a little disappointing to see a 50% drop off in traffic and an almost complete drop off in buzz.
With its growing community, some pretty fantastic stuff with its development in frameworks, astronomy, and other eggheadedness awesomeness, I’m not sure if the problem is a piece of software which is inherently lackluster — Cuil, I’m looking at you.
Maybe buzz isn’t important. Maybe traffic isn’t important. But, I suspect that for WolframAlph
- Will Microsoft Use Office 10 To Push Internet Explorer and Silverlight?July 13 2009
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In advance of the inevitable blogging orgy around Microsoft’s Office 10, only a couple of questions I’d like answered:
Will Office 10 work “better” in Internet Explorer, and will it require Silverlight to work? It would be fascinating (and stupid) if Microsoft made that the case, but I suppose, perhaps, that its no different than Google OS working “better” in Chrome (although Google’s current applications do not use a web application framework like Silverlight).
The other silly one is that so far all signs point to it being “free” for web-versions of Office 10 — does that mean it’s Free, ONLY if you’ve a paid version of Office 10? Because the last time I saw a paid version of Office is probably the last time I saw a paid version of Photoshop.
(Work and student-bought copies being the natural exception to the rule).
- Still Suspended On Twitter. No, I Don’t Have a Koobface Infection.July 11 2009
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So, as Louis Gray discovered (to my shame), my Twitter account has been suspended. I understand that I’m in some company, and it probably predated a human-related error that occurred several days ago. I have no idea why this is the case, and apparently my case is still pending review by someone with the handle “delbius”, and who looks like this picture:
Delbius — I’m still waiting for my account to be resolved. I’m not a spammer. I don’t have the Koobface infection (be careful of which links you click on, especially if they’re shortened) I don’t even have bad breath (most days). Please don’t make me like Friendfeed more than Twitter (than I already do).
UPDATE: I guess this is delbius …. Hmmm. I wonder if there’s somewhere else I should get satisfaction on this issue?