Jeffrey C. Long

The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” “An excellent book!”             — Paul Wilmott Principles of quantitative development I just picked up the new issue of Wired magazine. The cover story is about Steven Spielberg’s production of the new War of the Worlds. The picture of him shows that he is [...]

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Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Following are the blogs I read on a regular or semi-regular basis. Please comment sites that you visit, or blogs that are in your news aggregator. Bands Jam Band bittorrents Relix magazine Jam band news source Jam band fan blog BrandYou! (Tom Peters phraseology) (personal business) Seth Godin Author [...]

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A few weeks ago I bought Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba software so that I could record streaming audio such as NPR’s Science Friday and Classic King FM’s Sunday evening Compline service. I ran into a bug with the program. When I contacted tech support, I had an immediate response on a Saturday of all [...]

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Interesting places I’ve come across in the last week 15 Things You Can Do With RSS “Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this [...]

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In publishing, a colophon describes details of the production of a book. This information generally includes the typefaces used, and often the names of their designers; the paper, ink and details of the binding materials and methods may also receive mention. In the case of technical books, a colophon may [...]

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Nancy writes: Do you have topical folders within Devonthink or do you just dump everything in? Yes, I keep groups(folders) for everything I put in Devon. At first I had broad categories filled with subcategories and subsubcategories. But following my study of Getting Things Done (great book btw) I decided I wanted a flatter file [...]

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Read this today on the Strange Attractor blog today. Opening keynote was from Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems, who provided a very good introduction to blogging. He gave beginners a good overview of the sorts of things you need to think about when you start blogging, and more experience people got a reminder of the [...]

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I’ve decided to start publishing some tips for how I use Devonthink for those users on the internet who use this powerful information management tool for the Mac. My most recent hack has been saving links to my Devonthink when I am doing offline reading. I spend most of my mornings at either Barnes and [...]

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Another article on how cell phone usage is changing the world we live in. This time economically. Colleges’ Land Lines Nearing Silent End: The Washington Post reports that across the country, wired phones are becoming obsolete in colleges. Although not many colleges have eliminated them, “almost every major school is evaluating it,” said Jeri Semer, [...]

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I use a program called DevonThink to organize all the various documents, thoughts and research I do. It is a freeform database with the ability to handle multiple document types and to make links to other documents in the database. The more I use it the deeper it gets. I also use a program called [...]

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