World’s Largest Record Collection for Sale
I first heard this on NPR, but it looks like Wired has grabbed on to the story. The world's largest album collection is up for sale on eBay. It contains over 3,000,000 vinyl records (mostly 45 rpm singles) as well as over 300,000 CDs. Once the collection hit 160,000 records (or so) he had to move them to a warehouse. Once space was not longer an issue, he started buying albums by the tractor trailer load, usually as they were being returned from the distributor to the manufacturer as unsold. Minimum bid is a bargain at $3,000,000.
Serious ASCII Art
Can't say I care for the indenting style in this source code. But still, the result is cool.
LOST: Looks like a 12 episode season
With the writer's strike now over, there's rampant speculation on how much LOST we're going to see this season. According to Lost...Stuff, we can expect a 12 episode season. What remains to be seen is how long it will take to get the episodes in the can. LOST is a peculiar show - it has a history of finishing production within hours of show time. In one of the Lost podcasts, the producers describe one Wednesday night when they were prep'ing the ABC affiliate stations to substitute a repeat because that week's episode wasn't ready. The original episode was eventually shown - it was sent over the satellite 20 minutes before air-time!
Putting Things Off
I'm a big fan of lightweight productivity. I've seen David Allen live, and read 43folders on a regular basis. The trouble with the lightweight approach is that it substitutes rigid process for something I'm sorely lacking in - namely, willpower. Jotting all your open items down somewhere is fine as long as you have the discipline to actually do something with that information. So, imagine my delight when I came across Put Things Off - the laid-back productivity blog. To my dismay, there is no magic bullet that makes getting my act together as easy as getting a beer from the fridge - however, this site does a great job of putting the best GTD-like advice together in a very practical way. Nick Cernis covers the whole landscape of the web worker lifestyle in a very light, approachable style.
Wordpress 2.3.2
Upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.3.2. Had to upgrade most of the plug-ins as well, but it was time to do that anyway. As always, drop a comment if you notice anything odd about the site
htmlPlayground
htmlPlayground is a neat little site that allows you to learn about the different HTML tags both by reading and experimenting. Simply select a tag, see a description of the tag along with a table of HTML attributes that you can modify, and see the results as you tweak the attributes. Sample HTML code is shown demonstrating the code - which you can also edit to see what happens. I wasn't able to get the table of attributes to really work (using Firefox), but still very worthwhile.
