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"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. ... I felt
very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
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"On the surface, it sounds irresponsible, but to flourish in a rapidly changing world, you actually need to make more mistakes. Fail quickly. Fail often. If you do something and it
doesn't work, just recover in a hurry and try something else. ... Help develop a culture that is willing to fail its way to the future."
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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour."
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| wireless is a go |
| Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
In the interest of avoiding a computer-crippling lightning strike, this post was not published until the morning after it was written. This disclaimer is written to maintain the integrity of our 30 Days of Blog campaign.
On a complete lark this afternoon, I hopped on Microcenter and NewEgg to shop around for wireless routers. On recommendations from Gary, my IT guy at work, I gave preference to Linksys and d-Link and couldn't believe some of the deals I found. NewEgg had a d-Link for $38, but after some consideration, I realized I didn't feel like waiting until sometime next week to receive it. I bought the thing from Microcenter, then, and arranged for in-store pickup after work.
It was only a shade over $50 including tax, and the installation could not have been easier. My biggest problem was deciding where to set it on my desk. It was all but completely automated, which was great in terms of usability and expeditious operation, but on the down side, I didn't learn anything. So I have quite a bit of reading to do to make sure I've done all I need to do in the interest of security. The one I bought is Linksys, which I found out later is a division of Cisco... and believe me, in the IT world, no two words go better together than "Cisco" and "router."
More to come on the Netbook. I've got to shut down, there's apparently a gigantic thunderstorm coming, and I've been down that road before, as you know.
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