I recently picked myself up an Asus EEE PC, with XP Home, for $399. Amazing to have a fully functional laptop that I can write wiki pages on for so cheap and so small. It isn't my smallest machine, but it is certainly the lightest weight.... Actually, if I wanted, I could probably shoehorn an installation of Confluence into the EEE PC and use that for a personal note taking environment, but I haven't decided if I want to go that route. Wifi access is available often enough for me to be able to get onto one of my established wikis to put my notes there.... Right now I am working on figuring out how to get setup to do programming for free in C# on the EEE PC. More about that adventure in these posts:

• Garnet's review of the Asus EEE PC With XP Home
• Programming C# on Asus EEE PC

A friend of mine has been having problems with his high blood pressure. During the process of getting his blood pressure medicine adjusted, he mentioned about a small lump he was feeling in his heel. The doctors immediately prescribed an MRI, and before the my friend was even given the results, he's getting a call from the pre-op nurse scheduling his appointment for an operation to remove the lump from his heel.

He told me he first noticed the lump about 6 weeks ago. Perhaps it's growth has been very very slow, or it has shifted slightly....

Or... Just maybe.... Could it be? Exploring possible far out explanations for a lump in heel...

Advice to a friend who was sharing some cool things he was researching:

When you're researching, it don't count if it don't result in a wiki page!

I'm a big believer in recording notes about things I see into my wikis.

Here's what I think you should have done:

When you're researching allotropes of carbon, immediately start a wiki page "Allotropes of Carbon" - Make notes on what you're reading. Note the urls. Quote a few sentences (not the whole thing), reword a little... Save it. If you have a couple (two or three) paragraphs on something like Buckminsterfullerenes, create a link in your current page to that new page name, save it, then click the link to the new page, and put the text about the bucky balls. Save it. Then go back to the original page.

Then you'd have several cool new wiki pages that you could build on in the future.

Without doing that process to record something in the wiki, researching is just lost time... You're working hard to figure out how to "organize" things into a framework, and that's good, but you can be a lot more free form, and that will be ok too....

Here's an example of a wiki article I wrote about a problem with HP products:
http://www.bobsgear.com/display/ts/HP+Removing+Drivers+To+Suport+Older+Operating+Systems+With+their+Printers?focusedCommentId=19169444#comment-19169444

As you can see from the comments, it's getting a lot of notice. If I hadn't put that in the wiki, it would have all been for nothing....

Maybe we need to do a video conference with Adobe Connect so you can see my screen as I am going through doing some wiki pages as I research some things. I'll see if I can set that up in the next day or two.

Out of desperation, I've pasted your message here: http://www.facts11.com/display/chemfacts/Allotropes+of+Carbon

Heard from a seven year old (actually he'll be 8 years old in a week):

"If we vote for Hillary Clinton, we don't what she is going to do."

Huh? What do you mean?

"She might mess up everything. Like the tax thing. She might make everything worse."

Explain yourself.

"Let me make myself very clear mom, so you can understand, mom."

Out of the mouth of babes...