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Yesterday, I had my first taste of Apple-Fanaticism: The Release of the new Mac Operating System (OS), Tiger. It seems the release of a new OS is a very big deal in Apple circles and yesterday was no exception. It was to go on sale at 6pm. My friend Stu, who always keeps me […]

There was one movie at the Boston Independent Film Festival that I really had to catch. My friend Don introduced me to Jeff Buckley back in ‘94 with his album Grace. I can’t think of any other artist that is so striking that I remember the introduction. Riding is the car with Don and […]

Tomorrow is the109th running of the Boston Marathon. It seems the whole city is wearing heartrate monitors and running shoes.

Folks getting their picture taken with the newly repainted finish line on Boylston street.

Imagine waking up one morning imprisoned in a studio apartment with only a television as your source of outside information and a stack of empty notebooks as your means of self expression. Every so often a plate of dim-sum is slid through a trap door and every so often you are gassed and wake […]

“To know another language is to possess another soul.”
-Unknown (Sometimes attributed to Charlemagne)

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. “
~Thomas Szasz,
Author, Professor of Psychiatry (1920- )
Thanks to Jason for finding […]

Once you’ve been cataloguing your links for a while on del.icio.us you can create a map which pretty well visualizes your interests. Here is mine:

Large dark words represent places on the internet you visit often, lighter smaller words appear less frequently in your internet surfing history. Click on any category and see the links […]

This just in from the dykstraNet Buzzword Alert System:
There is a new buzzword:
lifecaching - v. To record all the various events and happenings of one’s life.
Blogs are an example of recording one’s journal entries. Podcasts make an audio record that you existed on the planet. 43things records your goals. How about recording […]