• read any William Gibson (Idoru, ATM – thx to Jim)
• listened to Bad Religion for half the day then
• listened to drum and bass for the rest of the day
• done any programming that made my life easier and more confident.

Yet, for whatever reason, they all feel so perfect right now.

“If only the reader could learn to ignore 60% of what’s here, she might have a chance at a pleasant experience. Please stop helping. What you’ve got here is not content, but noise.” – Andy Rutledge

“the curse of being able to measure everything is that you get slapped in the face with this reality all the time.” – Duncan Watts, researcher on ‘Everyone’s an Influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter‘

“If you want to be really creative, you can’t do it in their context. Luckily we have the open web. Why don’t we do our work there, instead?” – Dave Winer

It’s Friday and I’m about 95% of normal.

For the second time this year – I collected a strange virus. I found this one Monday afternoon. It’s similar to the flu in that it takes you out for days on end. Though, unlike the flu – there was no fever. And I caught it in June, not January.

Here’s how to identify it on the street:

• a constant, massive, throbbing, unthinkable, headache for 4-days straight
• just enough nausea to make you not trust eating
• chills and heat flashes cycle through a couple of times a day
• whole body aches for the first 2 days
• swollen glands and a scratchy throat the 2nd 2 days

I treated it with 10-15 hours of sleep a night and a few doses of regular-strength acetaminophen.

It was unpleasant, unexpected, disorienting, and nameless. I hope we never meet again.

Card.io says it can read credit cards just by looking at them. So much sexier than swiping.

“The world is big enough for both the paperclip and the staple.” – David S. Cargo

“I like the Internet because it means I can ignore big companies and still create meaningful software.” – Dave Winer

Today, Google & Apple are the dominant tech corporations with Microsoft & Nokia struggling to be more than also-rans.

The open internet is under continual attack and we, the citizens of the web, continually work for free.

My library of cyberpunk and dystopian sci-fi did not prepare me for this day.

Or perhaps – we are not there yet.

“it doesn’t seem like an all together bad time to be off Twitter.” – Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary