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February 27, 2006
Why, Alex, Why?
Why do I come to extremely value certain things that Alex publishes, but this revaluation always happens after 4-6 months after poo-poo-ing them as technodrivel or unapplicable to my interests? Examples:
- Moveable Type, the blogging software run by blog().this
- The concept of Wikis
- Del.icio.us and his shared bookmarks technique
- The brilliance of everything by Phillip Greenspun (ok, 4-6 years)
Because of Alex, I was exposed to all of this stuff almost eight months before any of them become "well known". But how does he pick them up a year before that happens? Maybe if I had a real engineering job.
And how do I sort this "useful on a delay timer" stuff out from the other stuff he publishes that I ALSO blow off as "not relevant" to me? Bluegrass? Motorcycles? Shameless opinion? Offending my Muslim friends?
All I can predict is that as much as I think it's impractical and stupid right now, in 4 months I'll probably be engaged in a 50 month interest free loan. And riding a bicycle daily.
Posted by Jeff at February 27, 2006 06:47 PM
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Wordpress?...Alex is moving to WordPress, will you be switching as well, Jeff? I've been with WordPress for almost a year now after picking it over Movable Type. Come jump on the bandwagon after you mull it over for a couple of months:)
Posted by: Rae at March 12, 2006 09:18 PM