wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: December, 2006

Definitive proof that Rotten Tomatoes is useless

Happy Feet gets a higher rating than Blood Diamond.

R.I.P. James Brown

No words.

List-o-matic

Getting Things Done (GTD) is all the rage on the net these days. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve gleaned a lot of the ideas through various sites. The basic concepts seem sound, though many of the implementations seem over-the-top for the amount of information I need to manage. So I’ve kept an [...]

All my friends use Gmail…

Okay, not all of them, but a good bunch of them do. And now that they’ve opened it up to everyone, there’s nothing stopping you from being as hip as we already are. But more than that, you can join in an odd type of communication we’ve come up with that I hereby officially dub [...]

The dangers of autobiography…

A brief interview with Robert Shields, author of the world’s longest diary. A few sample pages from the work: 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6. I was tempted to title this post either “the postmodernists are going to love this one” or “what I fear I will one day become,” though perhaps “remember, kid’s, [...]