Making life to easy for yourself
Feb. 22nd, 2003 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerIf you think about it, all technology is there to make life easier for us. To allow us to carry out a task in less time, or not at all.
The problem then, is that this leaves you with lots of time for other things. And sometimes feeling that the work that was necessary to do something was part of the fun.
I used to trawl through 20 odd sites for news. I'd look here there and everywhere to see if there had been any changes in news since the last time I'd checked. On dull days, the gap between checks could be half an hour. Less than half an hour wasn't really possible because It would take that long to go through all the different sites, check to see if there was anything and then pass on to the next site.
Nowadays, thanks to the twin marvels of syndication and aggregation, I get all of my comics here and all of my news here. I don't need to go to the sites, they come to me. This saves me vast amounts of time tracking down each site and following it through. Time that can now be spent doing something more productive or enjoyable. The problem is that I've not got this gap in my life which I used to waste. When you've got 30 seconds to spare while a compile runs, checking /. for new headlines fits the gap perfectly. You can't do anything productive in 30 seconds. You can't do very much that's really fun. And I've taken the kinda fun timewasters and automated them.
What am I going to do now?
The problem then, is that this leaves you with lots of time for other things. And sometimes feeling that the work that was necessary to do something was part of the fun.
I used to trawl through 20 odd sites for news. I'd look here there and everywhere to see if there had been any changes in news since the last time I'd checked. On dull days, the gap between checks could be half an hour. Less than half an hour wasn't really possible because It would take that long to go through all the different sites, check to see if there was anything and then pass on to the next site.
Nowadays, thanks to the twin marvels of syndication and aggregation, I get all of my comics here and all of my news here. I don't need to go to the sites, they come to me. This saves me vast amounts of time tracking down each site and following it through. Time that can now be spent doing something more productive or enjoyable. The problem is that I've not got this gap in my life which I used to waste. When you've got 30 seconds to spare while a compile runs, checking /. for new headlines fits the gap perfectly. You can't do anything productive in 30 seconds. You can't do very much that's really fun. And I've taken the kinda fun timewasters and automated them.
What am I going to do now?
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