INTERESTING: Go to sleep – or you’ll grow up short and fat

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/our_experts/article1362805.ece

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A generation of children brought up in Britain in the Thirties were regularly warned that if they didn’t go to bed on time, and instead stayed up all hours of the night as they did when on holiday in Italy and France, they would end up stunted. Any hope of us achieving the first rugby XV, or growing to a height that would enable us to find useful employment, would be forfeited. We had to eat up our good plain food and have 12 hours’ sleep even when aged 10 or 11, and ten hours during adolescence.

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So that’s what happened to me!

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INTERESTING: Every platform should have it’s own email address

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Using multiple platforms is a pia. It really requires thought about everything one does. That’s one advantage of web based applications. Unfortunately we based apps can change (i.e., disappear, morph into someone or something else, or change their operation) that make it not suitable for “production”. Web based apps can lock up your data as well. So to, multiple platforms may not be identical in the various dimensions (i.e., user, platform, application, data, or connectivity). It would seem useful to have each platform monitoring a unique email address. Anything found on one platform could then be transmitted to the others via those email addresses. It’s an insecure medium so encryption is important. And, since the ids should never be used outside the closed community, spam shouldn’t be an issue. Comments?

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TECHNOLOGY: Now what is the impact of blogging?

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/26mk3j

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/nemail21.xml

Recovery programme for email addicts

By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 21/02/2007

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Alcoholics have a 12-step programme to tackle their addiction, drug addicts too, and now there is one for those addicted to email.

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Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users.

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If email is 10%, then blogging must be 20%.

Like all addictions, you have to wait until the poor soul hits rock bottom. So when I start liking politicians, pop stars, and myself, then take away my keyboard.

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