Tech.co.uk: You lose 2.5 days a year to slow loading Web sites.
For me, those days are March 17, March 18, and half of March 19. There’s a 60-hour gap where I have absolutely no recollection at all about what I did, where I was, or why I’m covered in tapioca pudding. For some reason, slow-loading Web sites do this to me every St. Patrick’s day.
Slow-loading websites cost Brits 2.5 days of their lives every year, and users take out their web rage on others and their computer kit. That’s according to new research by Tickbox.net for 1&1 Internet which looked into 1,600 internet users’ chief net-related moans.
Slashdot: Are Sysadmins really that bad?
From Steve Wozniak:
If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that’s fine with me. I hope he’s a good one and enjoys it and doesn’t get caught. I’ll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he’s out of the house and not part of my family.
From Paul Boutin at ValleyWag:
What do those guys in Operations do all day? You can never get your systems administrator’s help when you need it. That’s because you haven’t figured out how to grease the skids: Say hello, fill out the paperwork, and never forget the sysadmin’s secret super power.
Ever since the famous “Bastard Operator From Hell,” network administrators have earned a reputation as irascible grumps who can make your IT life miserable. This Slashdot post asks whether or not System Administrators really are that bad…
The New Yorker: Fragmentary Knowledge -Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer?
So… incredibly… cool…
Until this moment, I had, like many others, continued to puzzle over why, if the Greeks were capable of building such a technically sophisticated device, they used that capacity to construct what is essentially a toy-an intellectual amusement. But as I beheld this whirring, whirling symphony of metal, a perfect simulation of a mechanistic and logical universe, I realized that my notions of practicality were foolish and shortsighted. This machine was much more than a toy; it embodied a whole world view, and it must have been, for the ancients, wonderfully reassuring to behold.
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