A couple of unimportant things
Here's an article (skim, don't read) on why cool cell phones, and the people who use them, will be the death of the consumer electronics industry. I've already ditched my old PDA in favor of using the address book and calendar in my phone, but it'll be a long time before a phone can rival my iPod, my GameBoy, or my digital camera. Then again, I don't carry my GameBoy or my camera around very often.
I thought this lego version of Spider-Man 2 was pretty cool.
Those of you who have blogs should set up an account with FeedBurner so that my newsreader can alert me when you update, and I can spend less time checking to see if you've updated. It supports both RSS and atom standards, which is nice (since I haven't found a free newsreader that supports atom, which is what all blogger offers). The news feed keeps track of when a web page is updated, and by running a newsreader program, you can keep an eye on which sites have new content. It's a great timesaver, and will improve the effeciency of my laziness.
As per my previous promise, here's the view out the closest window to my office:
MD Anderson is more or less in the center of the picture, then, to the right, is the University of Texas Health Science Center, and, on the far right, the tip of the Jewish wing of Baylor College of Medicine.
And, here's my desk:
On the far right is my 20 oz. plastic water glass, which I use to minimize the trips to the water cooler (a good fifty yards away). I'm averaging about four a day right now. In the center is the flat panel monitor I'm using until my ultra-cool flat panel monitor comes in. Further to the left are my iPod and headphones, and on the far left is our lab's server, which I could unplug if I wished to plunge the lab into chaos. I am Ward, fear me.
I thought this lego version of Spider-Man 2 was pretty cool.
Those of you who have blogs should set up an account with FeedBurner so that my newsreader can alert me when you update, and I can spend less time checking to see if you've updated. It supports both RSS and atom standards, which is nice (since I haven't found a free newsreader that supports atom, which is what all blogger offers). The news feed keeps track of when a web page is updated, and by running a newsreader program, you can keep an eye on which sites have new content. It's a great timesaver, and will improve the effeciency of my laziness.
As per my previous promise, here's the view out the closest window to my office:
MD Anderson is more or less in the center of the picture, then, to the right, is the University of Texas Health Science Center, and, on the far right, the tip of the Jewish wing of Baylor College of Medicine.
And, here's my desk:
On the far right is my 20 oz. plastic water glass, which I use to minimize the trips to the water cooler (a good fifty yards away). I'm averaging about four a day right now. In the center is the flat panel monitor I'm using until my ultra-cool flat panel monitor comes in. Further to the left are my iPod and headphones, and on the far left is our lab's server, which I could unplug if I wished to plunge the lab into chaos. I am Ward, fear me.
posted by L. Maxwell Ward at 10:21 PM
