January 2009
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There are no inches*
Do you know that scene in The Matrix, where the bald kid bends a metal spoon with nothing more than his quiet gaze? Neo (the superhero protagonist) is stymied when he attempts it, until the child shares his zen observation: “There is no spoon.”
Sometimes we are hobbled by our notion of what is real. I’m thinking of something as simple as a spoon: measuring a straight line. This...
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backup your data while you sleep and work
More and more, everything I create, read, photograph, record, listen to and entertain myself with is sitting on a computer. All of these things are data, data that I need to earn a living and have some fun, which is stored on hard drives, mechanical devices that will inevitably fail. Yet I sleep at night with the confidence that I’ll never lose that data. And you should too.
Why bother?
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