We’re afraid to even guesstimate how much time we spend and waste on our computer, but if you need to go fascist on yourself, this might be for you. JournalLive is a free Windows-only download that will monitor your time spent on the computer and show you how much time you take to write your paper in Word versus all that e-stalking on Facebook.
Sure, you could also snoop on your partner’s computer with this, but that’s an added bonus for only the most obsessive. The first step is admitting you have a problem, and it’s hard to hide from your funny cats YouTube obsession when the hours logged are staring at you in the face.
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JournalLive Automatically Tracks Your Time [Lifehacker]
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Berkeley abounds with wireless networks–you just need to know where to go if you want to hog a little net time. Yeah, there’s always AirBears, but what if you don’t want your Internet history on the university’s watch? Not that we’re, uh, doing anything shady …
Wi-Fi FreeSpot has a whole list of wireless hotspots for the student on the go, and now finding your favorite local cafe became that much easier. Below, the full list:
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A group of Cal researchers known as TIER (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) managed to do the highly unprofitable—establish over 200 miles of Wi-Fi link in Venezuela. But they did it to break a world record, not to bring internet connectivity to the nation’s netless. Really, though, who cares about motive? We’re sure the Venezuelans don’t.
We applaud TIER’s efforts to get into the record books, especially since some believe world-wide internet access is somewhat essential for humanity’s continued existence. Now all that’s left is to make a bad joke about how some of us are still waiting for ultracheap Wi-Fi.
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Helping Wi-Fi Reach World’s Poor [Daily Cal]
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Danica Li on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 06:15 pm
Admit it: you wouldn’t mind surfing Facebook, Myspace and Livejournal all day and then writing a doorstopper about socialization in the digital age for your doctoral dissertation, earning you a hefty degree and no discernably marketable job skills to go with it. That’s what we call uni, folks.
In the geekiest venture since the invention of fantasy sports, Internet nerds researched and wrote about Internet nerds, and all of them got together and had a party this past week at Stanford University. As far as we can discern from the report, the public forum on “New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth” has the following to tell us about our screensucking, l33tsp33k-ing ways: read more »
We know it’s the new year (happy new year!) and we should be looking forward, but we can’t help but love all the crazy Internet people of the past.
Consider this video a treat–a break from tree people obsessing and a peek inside the mental makeup of a typical blogger. We’re just upset the video missed “2 Girls 1 Cup.”
Internet People [Meth Minute 39]
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