Drifting Along

From a film of a book I have read:-

"I find the key is to think of a day as units of time, each unit consisting of no more than thirty minutes. Full hours can be a little bit intimidating and most activities take about half an hour. Taking a bath: one unit, watching countdown: one unit, web-based research: two units, exercising: three units, having my hair carefully disheveled: four units. It’s amazing how the day fills up, and I often wonder, to be absolutely honest, if I’d ever have time for a job; how do people cram them in?"

So, where has all my time been going? Evenings seem to slip on by. Before i know it it is approaching midnight. Again. And I cannot help but feel at the moment that maybe I should try and get more sleep. Or maybe its just a matter of actually doing more. I never have got my head around the two, and worked out which one actually works….

The knack is not just to kill time. The knack in my case is to get the stuff done that I need to do, and the stuff I want to do, but at the same time to not have too much time remaining beyond that. Trickery than it seems really.

Naming computing hardware

We used to have an IBM PC at home. I mean a PC actually made by IBM. I think it was a PS/2

Now IBM started PCs. It made the IBM PC and then allowed everyone to make something compatible, the IBM PC Compatible thier business case was to allow anyone to make compatible PCs, but for theirs to continue to be the best. They succeeded in the first case, but then failed horribly in the second. On the bright side we the consumers now have the ability to have a fairly generic computor. Even if most people then run windoze.

Recently IBM sold its PC business so are we going to stop calling the PC and IBM PC compatible? Certainly I think we should stop saying that the machines are "IBM PC or compatible" when specifying them