Saving time
In the Googleblog entry that announced the evil Google Web Accelerator, a Google software engineer posted the rationale behind its creation: saving small amounts of time adds up. It got me thinking about other tiny things which, if we skipped, we’d end up with so much more time on our hands. Here’s my list of tiny things I could do without, or have already started skipping to keep up with my go-getting lifestyle1:
- Writing the hydrogens on expanded organic formulae
- Combing hair (dispensed with aged 12)
- Tying shoelaces (now a bi-monthly occurance due to special shoe-wearing technique!)
- That time after you’ve finished an exam and before you’re allowed to leave (solution: count number of hairs on head of person in front of you – time passes as fast as recent Tory leaders)
- Buttering toast (solution: eat cereal – possibly without milk depending on how insanely rushed you are)
I’ve calculated that by saving time from all of these things, I’d be able to write exactly 0.2 more blog entries a week! So if you see a sudden surge in blog entry frequency, you’ll know I’m skipping milk in the mornings.
1. Actual lifestyle may differ.
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Matthew @ 17:38, May 9, 2005 to Miscellaneous | Comments (0)
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