Tag Archives: lifehacker

Date
16
FEB
11
Author

Tips for eating at your computer

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Douglas Coupland’s 1995 novel Microserfs (which was really good in 1995 but probably hasn’t aged well) is about a group of programmers who start out working in Redmond for Microsoft and eventually quit to form their own company in Silicon Valley. In the early part of the book one of the characters, Michael, locks himself in his office to code while trying to meet an extreme deadline and decides to survive only on flat foods, food that can be slid under his door. He eats a lot of pre-packaged sliced processed cheese food (Kraft Singles) and Fruit Roll-Ups.

Frankly, I was a little surprised that Michael’s 2D diet didn’t get a mention in Lifehacker’s “The Best Foods (and Strategies) for Eating at Your Computer.” The post rounds up advice from Lifehacker’s readers on what constitutes “keyboard friendly food” and how to eat at your computer without making a mess. The best advice is probably to step away from the computer, but who does that?

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Filed under Links, Web Culture
Date
26
NOV
08
Author

Friday Links: Wednesday is the new Friday

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Since this is a short week here in the U.S. (yay Thanksgiving!), I’ll be posting the usual Friday link round-up on Wednesday.

  • AdWeek posted about an interesting Epsilon study that found that half of the 180 Chief Marketing Officers polled had no interest in using social networking (Facebook or Myspace, but, oddly enough Twitter is not mentioned) as a marketing venue. The study also showed that the CMOs expected cuts in their ad budgets next year, and yet didn’t expect that to effect their e-mail marketing campaigns.
  • Speaking of budget cuts, Ad Age (sorry, registration required [boo!] but you can use BugMeNot) has what looks to be a dire report about ad spending in the next six months. However, it only seems dire if you’re in the old media (think newspapers, magazines, broadcast TV) space. It looks as though those with the ad money to spend are going to be spending it in the online, cable TV, and mobile markets.
  • Fitting for our tough economic times and just in time for Thanksgiving, Lifehacker asked their readers what free software are you most grateful. The comments are a treasure trove. Lots of props for well-known freebies like Firefox, Open Office, and Adium. But there were a lot of apps I’d never even heard of. What free software are you most grateful for?
  • Take a stroll down memory lane with the Top 25 days in computing history.
  • For those of you who spend a lot of time traveling, here are 15 Tech Secrets for the Serious Road Warrior.
  • Have you got mad shortcut-key skills? If so, you might dig Keyboardr (random aside: can I just say that I will be happy when we go back to spelling things correctly?), a Google search mashup that lets you use shortcut keys to navigate through search results.
  • Kind of tangentially related to the last point, That? Which? Or What?, the NY Times explains how to figure out which one to use. [via]

That’s all for me this week, what were you reading on the Internet?

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