Circadian Shift

Today's lessons:

• It takes approximately 19 hours to download a 214 MB file on a dialup connection.


• If you think other people in an elevator can hear your stomach grumbling, you're probably right.

Scored a copy of the new Siouxsie and the Banshees double-CD compilation (going for a ridiculously low price at Second Spin -- yay!), and am pleasantly surprised at how much I'm enjoying disc 2, which has several extended mixes of various Siouxsie hits. I think many of these surpass the "regular" versions (I'd always thought as much about the extended mix of "Cities In Dust", which prompted me to buy it as a 12" back in the day).

Props to Slashdot for this linkage:

• The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold -- "It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. When you're not working, you don't have to worry about the boss objecting to you working on a blog."


• Blogging Goes Mainstream

Well, none of this is earth-shattering news, really. If you're unemployed, of course you'll have more time to blog (I was laid off from my job in March; the archives of this blog date back to April -- coincidence?). However, as I've (yawn) mentioned before, while you may not worry about annoying a current boss, you might want consider what impact your blog might have on a potential future boss.

On the other hand, I'm discovering that this blogging thing is useful to me as a networking work tool to further my employment prospects. It's allowed me to meet a group of people who are not only a whole lot of fun to hang out with, but have also a couple of times been able to provide me with job leads, or leads to other people who might have job leads. Very cool.

And, of course, the pyjamas and MP3s are nice too!