Posted on July 15, 2009 by jameswharris
Exercise for my flabby memory is the top reason why I put so much time writing on these blogs. If I go too long without writing, I’ll notice that I’m forgetting more words in day to day conversations – I have to keep writing to fight the decline of my mind. But am I writing [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by jameswharris
I wanted to call this essay, “My Life on a Terabyte Drive” because it sounded cooler and more specific, but then I’m thinking about buying a netbook and they only come with 160 gigabytes of hard drive space, something less glamorous to say in a title. I can’t even fit my music collection on that, [...]
Filed under: Audio Books, Blogging, Information, Internet, Inventions, Kindle, Memory | Tagged: Netbook, netbooks | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 29, 2009 by jameswharris
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything on Auxiliary Memory. I’ve started several essays but never finished any. I also started a diet. I’ve notice over the years that there’s a relationship between calories and the number of words I produce. Cookies, cokes, cakes and candy fuel my mind for writing. Dieting leaves my brain [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by jameswharris
A couple weeks ago I noticed that Auxiliary Memory was getting a bump in hits and discovered the reason: AlphaInventions.com. This site, the invention of Cheru Jackson was designed to randomly show blogs from around the world, and promote blog reading. If you visit AlphaInventions you can sit and watch a new blog pop up [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2008 by jameswharris
I’ve been blogging for awhile. I started with LiveJournal, and then moved to WordPress on my hosted site, and finally to WordPress.com. I like the convenience of WordPress.com maintaining everything, and I’m developing a wish-list of desired features I hope they will roll out in the near future.
First, let’s think about blogging in general. The [...]
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Posted on June 29, 2008 by jameswharris
In the excellent essay, “The Myth of Multitasking,” Christine Rosen opens up with this 1740s quote from a Lord Chesterfield to his son that I can’t stop thinking about:
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Internet, Reading, Time, Web, Writing | Tagged: attention, discipline, Google, mind, multitasking, task switching | 5 Comments »
Posted on April 13, 2008 by jameswharris
The title above comes from the Dylan Thomas poem and I encourage you to take a moment and follow the link and listen to it. It’s about death and dying, not a particularly popular topic for the young, but the ghost that haunts anyone past fifty. I am only fifty-six but thoughts of Social Security, [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by jameswharris
I’ve always meant to write a “Why I Blog” post and now that I’m listening to The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen this seems like a great time to do it. I googled Keen and many of the reviewers I read just dismissed him out of hand. Keen is essentially calling all us [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2008 by jameswharris
Philip Pullman created a wonderful fantasy invention in The Golden Compass when he imagined humans having a dæmon as an external soul to share their lives. His Dark Materials I believe is the largest selling recent fantasy series after the Harry Potter books, so the idea must really appeal to many people. It’s a crying [...]
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