Quantum Forest

I started browsing the web near the end of 1994, at a mind blowing speed of 8.6 Kbps. That is almost 12 years of web sites, news, changing tech, bad writing, etc. It woud be fair to say that internet has been my main time waster for over a decade.

Having an interest in personal productivity, GTD and the works, and maintaining such a time waster are completely incompatible things. Thus, it is time to dump the old habit and move on. I am stopping all non-essential use of the net, which includes everything but:

• Search of professional information (e.g., scientific papers or class materials).
• Maintaining the ASReml cookbook, which is the software that I use for genetic evaluation.
• Basic blogging using a blog client (most likely Azure talking to Textpattern—yes, I want to use my Palm for this—using XML-RPC through a plugin) to keep documenting work related issues and my family informed on what is in my head. The use of a client is mostly to avoid being online as much as possible, although it has the advantages of being able to autosave what I am writing at the moment.

Will it work? I hope so, because I have so many things to do that I need the extra time. Will I miss the web? You bet—particularly at the beginning—but I can not possibly fit the rest of my plans with my current usage.

PS 2006-03-14: Azure wanted my Palm to be connected to internet just to set up a blog profile. Too much to ask just to try it: not worth it, so I deleted the program. I may just use a text editor to write the posts.