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Filed under 'time'

October 5, 2010

The Chokehold of Calendars

“Most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.”

August 2, 2009

How Different Groups Spend Their Day

Outstanding interactive infographic from the New York Times. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans spend their time, sliceable by demographic sectors.

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March 17, 2008

RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software

Another example of the “ambient” data-gathering I’m becoming so fond of. Tracks what applications you use, and what websites you visit, and run comparisons to work out where you’re spending your time.

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March 3, 2008

Coding Horror: Actual Performance, Perceived Performance

The way you code a progress bar will do more to “performance” than tweaking the process it’s measuring. “Humans do not perceive the passage of time in a linear way.”

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December 8, 2005

TIME Magazine Person of the Year 2005 | Billboard in Times Square NYC

Upload a photo of you (or someone or something else) and Time might flash it up on their “Person of the Year” billboard in Times Square. I uploaded a shot of Bacon, naturally.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.