Yak Shaving — [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you’re working on. (From the on-line hacker Jargon File)
#1. Finder of Lost Links
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Joe, you can also drag the following link (ia) to your bookmarks bar and then press it when you’ve tried to visit a broken page. It will ask the Internet Archive to show you all of the versions it has of the site named in the location bar — no copy and paste necessary.
I have also come full circle in the PDA journey. There’s just something satisfying and even sensusous about pen & paper that a PDA can never reproduce.
I’d recommend the blogosphere itself, as well as technorati and blogpulse. We can actually guage fast the information that Tony Perkins, defender of Christians against the men in black robes, actually tried to get money from the guys in white sheets.
And I’m pinging technorati to find out when and if the “conservative Christian” blogosphere responds to this.
That should say,
“We can actually guage fast the information that Tony Perkins, defender of Christians against the men in black robes, actually tried to get money from the guys in white sheets is spreading through the blogosphere.”
Should you have a chance you should check out our site, we have some great Christian writers.
3×5 or 4×6 cards also make the best bookmarks – most of my books have a bookmark card with notes taken while reading (but do what your high school English teacher told you and add some bibliographic information to the card – I have a few orphan cards and no idea where they belong).
The ability to carry around multiple translations of the Bible and being able to search for any keyword makes a PDA worth the investment.
mmm… yak shaving. Particularly useful / helpful in light of final exams for us university folk!!
So, cleaning the room IS definitely part of studying for that grueling final. Makes sense to me!