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The Six Hundred Posting Man

January 3, 2007

Cue cheesy '70's TV series music….

Brian Dipert, engineer. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first techno-blogging man. Brian Dipert will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster…..

Ahem. Yes, it's true. Right about here I crossed over the 600-posting threshold. From March 8, 2005 to today, according to the Date Duration Calculator (is there anything you can't find on the Internet?) is 667 days, alternatively stated as:

  • 57,628,800 seconds
  • 960,480 minutes
  • 16,008 hours, or
  • 95 weeks (rounded down)

Why am I telling you this? Because it means that, in spite of taking off 3.5 months this past summer, followed by another 3 weeks off this past fall, I'm still averaging just under 1 post per day, including weekends and holidays.

Am I insane? Perhaps. My compliments on your insightfulness. I'm also curious. Round-number thresholds like this one provide a reminder to me to reach out to the denizens of Brian's Brain for feedback. What do you like about what I'm doing with this wee corner of cyberspace? What do you detest? What do you wish I did more of, and less of?

What could I be doing that I'm not now? And, the all-important flipside of the coin, what should I stop doing in exchange? For human cloning isn't yet perfected, and the last time I checked there were still only 24 hours in a day (and I still need to sleep sometimes).

I await your wise words with bated (or is it baited?) breath and eager anticipation. Lemme have it!

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Posted by Brian Dipert on January 3, 2007 | Comments (7)

January 5, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Brian Dipert commented:

Anonymous, did you see my Wii coverage? www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/760006076.html (a multi-parter, enjoy the video clips). I welcome your feedback. Haven't posted anything on Sony in a while, actually. I'm happy to report that the MCE PC is roughly half-built; I'm off to CES and ICCE tomorrow for 9 days, but I hope to have it completed (running Vista Ultimate if Microsoft PR ever gets a copy in my hands, XP MCE otherwise) by the 22nd. Stay tuned....


January 5, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Anonymous commented:

I'm not a Sony fanboy. I'd be a Wiiboy if anything. I just thought the bashing was excessive. I understand you don't like Sony. Don't buy it. Move along now. [How many of your 600 posts have been about this?] What happened to the Windows Media Center Edition PC?


January 5, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Piense El Tanque commented:

Where is post 601?


January 4, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Brian Dipert commented:

Dear Anonymous, you're apparently unsubscribing from a LOT of RSS feeds, then ;-) Denial is the first step. With that said, I'm glad to see you're still stopping by Brian's Brain on occasion. All opinions are welcome here.


January 4, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Piense El Tanque commented:

Just keep doing what you are doing!


January 3, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Taylor Gautier commented:

but otherwise good stuff!! :)


January 3, 2007
In response to: The Six Hundred Posting Man
Taylor Gautier commented:

Fix the commenting system - no links is unacceptable and the lack of formatting (at least line breaks) is annoying. Logins would be nice to prevent having to do captchas on every post.

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