Wednesday, March 30, 2022

I Nearly Died From COVID. Now I’m Letting Go Of The Fear

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ZDNet: “The COVID-19 pandemic drove many into “hermit mode” as our employers required us to work from home for months. Working from home seems easy until you have to do it while dealing with the ordinary distractions of home life! Luckily, there are many strategies for how to improve your focus in this unique work situation. 



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These people who go around wanting people they don’t like dead have probably never been anywhere near some of the places I’ve been very late at night that even I found scary. And bear in mind, some years ago, when a guy started walking toward me while opening a switchblade,  I positioned my walking stick — then a fashion statement, not (as it is now) a utility — in a peculiar way and said to him in my best Clint Eastwood voice, “Go ahead, make my day.” He figured out that I wasn’t going to hit him in the head with my stick. I was going to deprive him of one of his eyeballs. He folded up his knife and walked away.  I actually know how to use my walking stick  —  I have several — as a weapon. I wonder what “tough guy” Professor  Zack would have done.

Internet Archive Blogs: “As the war intensifies in Ukraine, volunteers from around the world are working to archive digital content at risk of destruction or manipulation. The Internet Archive is supporting several preservation efforts including the Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) initiative launched in early March. “When we think about the internet, we think the data is always going to be there. 
But all this data exists on physical servers and they can get destroyed just like buildings and monuments,” said Quinn Dombrowski, academic technology specialist at Stanford University and co-founder of SUCHO. “A tremendous amount of effort and energy has gone into the development of these websites and digitized collections. The people of Ukraine put them together for a reason. They wanted to share their history, culture, language and literature with the world.”…