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Yes. Isn't that curious, to say the least? First he complains about becoming a serf at GS - where I am assuming no one hides the fact that everyone is indeed a serf, and the pretense that it is not all about money, is kept at a minimum, if any at all.

If GS was the frying pan, then, in my view, he jumped into the fire at Facebook where he is now working for an adolescent-minded, untransformed individual, who traded his personal integrity for the fruits of lust - "success, sex, money, fame" - under the guise of "helping connect people"...

Goes to show you that the old Buckaroo Banzai saying holds true for Antonio as well... Whereever you go, Antonio, there you are. Still a wannabe human being... with much growing left over to do.

Most kinds of transactions that require anonymity are illegal. Considering that police investigations crack most cases within 72 hours after the crime's been committed, I think you have a snowball's chance in hell of having your business take off. You either do not keep any records at all, or this is not a business. BitCoin's already eaten your lunch.

Let's see... Jobs is on his way out of Apple, depending on what kind of disciples he has, Apple may or may not survive without him. He's just too important for Apple, at least in my view.

RIM just announced a recall of Playbook. They're going downhill fast - perhaps if they get DalvikVM running flawlessly, that can be their lifeline until they can get their Flash based apps going/ported - IMHO, a long time in the making before any of this happens, so I think they're due for a downhill roll for a while before they come up, if at all ...

Android and Apple are pretty much eating everyone's lunch for now. Android's strength is its 'openness' (however ill-perceived that may be) and Linux. Apple's is its control over hardware and software.

MS could be looking to become like Apple here... control the hardware as well as the software. It might work - but in my view, they are at least 2-4 years away from having a platform as stable as iOS or even Android, which is relatively new.....

It's a tough call. Probably money well spent, but they can't afford to fuck up the execution. It's gonna require Ballmer to not sleep at night and lose whatever hair he's got left....

Paul - moving your i-net access to a separate PC is only avoiding the real issue - yourself and what you're doing with yourself (e.g. your life).

If you get your job done, even with all the distractions included as part of it, then your problem isn't either of 1) getting your job done and on time or 2) distractions of various types.

Your "problem" (allow me to be presumptive to illustrate a point) is you aren't "feeling it" anymore for your job as a techie. You learned the God language - Lisp - you know you can get shit done with it, and above all - you DO get shit done with it. Distracted or not.

What you want is to set yourself up for a bigger game - and when I say a "bigger" game, I mean find something to do where you "know" you are going to fail or something that makes you feel uncomfortable enough to think you might fail at it. Reason I quoted "know" is because you don't know you're going to fail until you do something, however, you have (luxury of) the pretense of "knowing" because the thought of doing something other than what you superbly know how to do and have been doing for a long time, gives you the willies and makes you feel "uncomfortable".

When you begin to feel uncomfortable about doing something you haven't done before, you will cease to be distracted, because you will be preoccupied with overcoming the fear of failing at your new endeavor (and being in that state will offer you excitement without distractions).

Now - does that new game have to be creating yet another Lisp dialect (e.g. Arc, or whatever you called it..?)? No. I know you can write the next Lisp, or whatever...

Try this on - set up a program in your neighborhood where /every/ weekend you get a /firm/ commitment from 5 or 10 people to pick up garbage or litter from the common areas...

Or try to get a homeless guy to 1) shave, 2) clean up, 3) buy some new clothes (or you buy him some) and see that getting a job as a a bagman for 8 hours a day at Wal-Mart or Target pays better than begging on a street corner...

Or use your imagination ... and find something to do that will inspire you and those you are involved with.

I promise you will not be distracted whatsoever when you put your efforts toward doing something like this. You don't have to believe me about this. Try it on. See how it fits. Then come back and tell me you are still feeling 'distracted'.