Look at the size of that thing (and questions about links posts)

So, it's summer, which means us school employed non-teacher types get time off. And, unexpectedly, this li'l stepdad found out yesterday that stepdaughter is at Dad's all next week so I have a completely free week with no plans (and very little money).

So I'm tidying, and have even managed to clear the office desk to plug the lovely little netbook into the big flatscreen monitor and decent keyboard. This is a Good Thing. Except, I've got very very used to the netbook over 18 months. It's got a 1024*600 display, and I'm used to seeing everything, including webpages, on a screen that size.

From Blogpostpics

This monitor? 1280*1024. That doesn't sound massive, and it's dwarfed by, say, my father's iMac, but I'm so used to small it seem huge to me now. Here's a screenshot of my browser window resized to netbook size within it. See what I mean? Size matters not? Whoever told you that was your enemy ;-)

Anyway, now I've got the desk setup, I want to try and get more work done, more writing done, and hopefully some coding work on DW, this means I'll likely be spending more time procratinating and linking to cool stuff. I know, I've said that before, but, y'know, stranger things have happened. Now, as you probably know, I redid the Delicious Glue linkposter awhileback to make the whole process easy (and therefore likely I'll do it). I can set it to appear at any time whatsoever GMT. andrewducker has his set for 11am GMT, miss_s_b has hers for 9am, mine's currently set for 9pm but I'm not sure that's the best time. Basically, when it runs, it takes all the links I've posted for 24 hours and puts them here as a digest. What time of day suits you best if you like to read them? I ask because some like stuff to amuse when they're supposed to be working, some when they're on a break, some when they're eating breakfast/travelling, others just before they turn in, and I, frankly, don't care.

Poll #7581 Linkspam posts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

View Respondents

Posts with multiple links and a bit of comment on them (ie Delicious style posts)

View Answers

Are a great source of interesting things
11 (91.7%)

Can be interesting and show more of the person linking
9 (75.0%)

Are normally dull and I skip past them
0 (0.0%)

Are really annoying and I'd like the to die (but will be happy if Mat shows me how to hide them from display)
0 (0.0%)

Cats
5 (41.7%)

Linkspams please me when I see them

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First thing in the morning (ie before 9am)
3 (25.0%)

At some point in the morning so I can read them for 11ses
4 (33.3%)

At lunchtime
4 (33.3%)

Mid afternoon (for the end of the working day)
6 (50.0%)

Early evening to digest after work
5 (41.7%)

Late evening for nighttime entertainment
7 (58.3%)

Ponies
6 (50.0%)

Hey, look, tickboxes for everything. Yup, you're allowed more than one opinion on the same topic, aren't I a good little liberal ;-)

More stuff to follow, likely, unless I got play Goldeneye for a bit. Actually, breakfast would make some sense. I'll go do that.

Interesting Links for 7-23-2011

Collected links from around the web

• How a Business Dies - Tim Worstall's business is in trouble. This pleases him.
  One of the things that teaching myself loads of economics is doing is to become even more keen on, and accepting of, the affects of change. Policy makers need to help people as jobs and companies come and go when technology changes, protectionism is stupid. And I really want some nice warm LED lighbulbs to replace the bloody awful sneeze-inducing flourescents that are ubiquitous these days.
  (tags: economics progress technology)
• Newspapers run scare stories on MPs’ allowances-shoddy journalism and subbing
  Look at the headline and first line there. It's known many skim read and never go past the first few paragraphs. You'd think Linda and Craig had done stuff wrong. I campaigned, unsuccesfully, against both these MPs in 2010. Their expenses as published are not only within the rules, they're mostly on staffing costs. Journalists chase a headline and linkbait, devalue respect in a cleaned up system. Just wrong
  (tags: journalism parliament calderdale calder-valley halifax craig-whittaker)
• "I’ve been suspended from Google+" - so very, very wrong, on so many levels. Wake up Google
  I like what Google are doing with Plus. If nothing else, it's competition for Facebook and the cross platform integration with their products makes them more usable. But they really need to get their collective geek heads out of their collective arses and realise the real world doesn't, and in some cases cannot, revolve around the name on someone's birth certificate. For some, it's a preference, for some, it's a longstanding nickname, for some, it's a matter of life and death. Thankfully, that's a small number, but mindnumbingly stupid adherance to daft rules is something I dislike intensely, especially when it stops my friends using something they want to use and I'd like them to use.
  (tags: Google+ pseodonymity nicknames web-culture)
• You can't stop the Pony - Serenity with a different take
  This is silly. So very very silly. But pretty, if you like that sort of thing, and fairly well done.
  (tags: video my-little-pony firefly serenity)
• Norway « Anders talks Scandinavian cultural stuff
  Simply horrifying news from Norway, so many people dead for politics. Anders talks more generally about the scandinavian worldview, and why that island was being used in the first place.
  (tags: Norway culture scandinavia)

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