Original ExistDifferently.com Weblog of David, a Christian Network and Systems Manager, with topics ranging from Apologetics to Worldview, and some crypto, open source, programming, opinion, and daily life thrown in between.

Not that I really went anywhere. Just spent so much time working, relaxing, and reading new info, that I didn’t really have the time or inclination to process and organize the info enough to make it pop up here. So I appeared to have dissappeared, except to those I know in real life who saw me a few times :-)

I seem to have a knack for finding interesting (by my definition!) stuff that’s about the actual interesting stuff. For example, there’s a great entry at a blog I read called “Procrastinator, know thyself“:http://www.slackermanager.com/slacker_manager/2005/02/procrastinator_.html that has good insight, but links to another entry in another blog, called “Is Procrastination a Gift?“:http://monster.typepad.com/monsterblog/2005/02/is_procrastinat.html that, in turn, links to “an article in The Wall Street Journal”:http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110790238799549268-IdjgINilal4npyrZYKHcaaHm5,00.html. The annoying thing? Reading the first, short article can lead to five minutes worth of reading! And that’s just following one link per page. See why I don’t have time to compose posts here, considering they take even longer with links like that? Not to mention it explains why I end up with, um, (let me count), nine browser windows open simultaneously, With a total of seventy-nine “tabs”:http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/tabbed-browsing.html open at once across those nine “Firefox”:http://www.getfirefox.com/ browser windows! Including this post composition window, of course. I mean, I’m only using five tabs right now, in this browser window, to compose this post. Oops, I just went up to nine, finding some “good”:http://www.gmailforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t1475.html “pages”:http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050114201044946 “tabbed”:http://channels.lockergnome.com/web/archives/20041222_italicise_your_unread_firefox_tabs_and_other_bits.phtml browsing…even after closing the Google window I used to search for them :-)

I could probably come up with some other stuff to talk about (this is where I was going to say, “but it will have to wait until later” until I finished the rest of the paragraph!). For example, a friend suggested some good books to grab, namely those by “Michael Crichton”:http://www.crichton-official.com/ (also see “Wikipedia entry”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton), specifically “The Great Train Robbery“:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060502304/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2 (also see the “DVD”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792839064/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2) and “Andromeda Strain“:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060541814/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2 (also a movie in “DVD”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008438U/davidsworldva-20/002-2086300-3510456?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=2025&link%5Fcode=xm2). Of course while looking those up at “Amazon.com”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=davidsworldva-20&path=http://www.amazon.com I saw that they are now playing the trailer for the movie “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”:http://www.hitchhikersmovie.com/ (see “the Amazon page for it”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=davidsworldva-20&path=tg/feature/-/556590/, too) coming the end of April, so I had to watch that and research it a bit. Took me up to 14 browser tabs. Actually, a bit more when I started looking up Michael Crichton books at the library to put on hold :-) And my point at the beginning of this paragraph, was that this post has mainly been me procrastinating to avoid entering the bills I just wrote checks for into “Quicken”:http://www.quicken.com/ and look, I’ve managed to spend a bit more time not doing that :-) Better go now…this post was supposed to be around three sentences long!

Oh yeah…camera is working out great, I love it! More on that some other time :-)