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Blog 200812260930

BOXING DAY 2008

I went out at six to get some milk, Duane Reade was closed so I had to get some from Starbucks. I think it was about $2.45 but that was better than getting some from room service which has a per order charge of $3.50 + cost if item + tax +gratuity... … …

I have to have my early morning cuppa! To recover from sleep, rehydrate and generally make me feel more human.

Yesterday we went to the Rockefeller Centre on 6th Avenue. What crowds. The sidewalks were packed, at some stages we walked in the road to avoid the scrum.  We took photos of  “the  Tree” - a famous Christmas tree at the centre. There was a melee around it of people taking their photos next to the tree. As usual at Christmas there were people skating on the rink at the centre. We went to the “Top of the Rock” for our 360 degree view. See the videos and pics at my other sites, facebook, twitter, 12 seconds, myspace etc. the tickets were $20, with an evening view for $10. we paid our $30 and went up.  After our visit and a quick festive Starbucks we went back to the hotel for an hour for a rest, then it was off again for the evening, sunset visit.  We left the hotel an hour before sunset and only just made it in time! Its amazing how long it takes:-

・    Down the elevator at the hotel from 14th floor.
・    Up sixth  avenue [fighting our way through the tourists].
・    Queueing at the Rockefeller centre.
・    Up an elevator to get to the departure floor for the top.
・    Through security [bags coats scanned].
・    Up the top elevator 67 floors then through the crowds to the 69th floor.
・    We got there with 5 minutes to spare.

Very cold all day here, and especially at the Top of the Rock.

Happy Boxing Day everybody.

Eric

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CHRISTMAS DAY 2008

I have been twittering since 5am – good way to spend Christmas morning. I started writing this blog with ustream.tv in the background [cali lewis] and found myself looking up on the web the references she made, then following those... … … usual story I don't get back to the blog for some time then I have lost my thread. Sound familiar? This seems to be the characteristic of surfing the web. I remember when I started using the internet having to decode the content before I could see it, this was such a bore, I didn't spend much time doing it. then came the browsers, I used Netscape first and suddenly all was there to see instantly without having to decode, that was the beginning for me of surfing. In those days I hadn't learned to use the bookmarks [or were they even available then?]. I would completely forget items I had seen, or where I had come from in the first instance. Now since beginning to use twitter, I have found a new phenomenon, following other peoples web surfing. This has taken the surfing experience to another level – sort of three dimensional. I can add to my web browser [now firefox] other peoples bookmarks and paths. I have joined so many different websites I have lost my way in a morass of clubs, blogs, live streams, and general chatter.

It seems that there is the possibility for a site /service to untangle this, to prioritise the feeds/emails/blogs and all the other connections so that I can usefully spend my time on the web in a more structured way – perhaps the service already exists and it has passed me by. I did think tweetdeck could do it, but it has a long way to go before it supplies what I need.

We are here in New York for Christmas and today are having a lazy day, my other half is still in bed, I guess we will have room service latter so we can have breakfast in bed. Til then I will go to get my self organised in real life!

Happy Christmas everybody.

Eric

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I'm just coming to the end of a frenzied week of activity on the Internet, or as it seems more appropriate to describe it, the Web. I have indeed uncovered a web of locations which I have visited and partially participated in. I started with twitter and this has lead to several handfuls of other sites, some I have joined to explore or play with but many I have only glanced at. Frankly to have gone into depth with every connection I have seen would have taken more than the week I have spent in this hotel room nursing my girlfriend after surgery.

We now go on to New York for Christmas where I imaging I will spend some more time on-line but where, given the price of hotel rooms, I will have to at least spend some time being a tourist. What does one do with 4 days in NYNY? What are the priorities? I wonder if I will get any suggestions from the web of connections this blog will be available on.

When I get back to the the UK, I hope to spend some more time working out whether there might even be a living to be made from the internet – I know many people are doing just that – I will have to be like Stephen Fry however and walk everyday to at least get some exercise away from the keyboard.

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I wonder how other people ration the time they spend on the internet, it seems to me since stating twitter and posterous there is an infinite amount of connections and follow through's one can make. Fortunately for me at the moment, because I am nursing my girlfriend after she had cosmetic surgery, I have a lot of time on my hands as I sit in our hotel room playing on the internet. But I cant keep up this 24/7 internet lifestyle when we leave here so perhaps I will be able to lean from other people's experience, any thoughts on this gratefully received at zzelp on twitter, facebook, livejournal, flickr and zzelp1 on blogspot. Please connect with me and share your thoughts. Eric Brighton.

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this is supposed to work from gmail but i cant see the post on the blog - why???

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trying to post using gmail ... does it work?

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So... where did the Stephen Fried effect lead?  It is almost incredible that just by seeing the posting of Stephen Fry I have followed him on Twitter and that lead to posterous, blogger, facebook, flickr and livejournal.  Twitter itself lead to dabr, blip, tweetbeep, tweetgrid, twitstamp, twitter grader, qik, greasemonkey, twitthat, notify.me, twirl, tweetdeck, and twitpic. I know this is just a small selection of the blogosphere but it has shown me the cascading effect of getting involved with putting ones life on the internet. The next challenge is to continue it and to keep it interesting. Wish me luck.

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So... where did the Stephen Fried effect lead?  It is almost incredible that just by seeing the posting of Stephen Fry I have followed him on Twitter and that lead to posterous, blogger, facebook, flickr and livejournal.  Twitter itself lead to dabr, blip, tweetbeep, tweetgrid, twitstamp, twitter grader, qik, greasemonkey, twitthat, notify.me, twirl, tweetdeck, and twitpic. I know this is just a small selection of the blogosphere but it has shown me the cascading effect of getting involved with putting ones life on the internet. The next challenge is to continue it and to keep it interesting. Wish me luck.

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Like others, I blame stephen fry for getting me into twitter - something that I had resisted quite well until now. I also have a Vaio with Vista and similarly have had problems connecting to wifi networks. So the news on iGizmo led me to his post and the following comments. This led to posterous and god knows where next. All of this is ok in as far as it goes, but where does it go? The problem I have is that there are just not enough hours in the day to spend the time I would like on the internet – I do have a life offline as well!

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