There's that 10%...

From a New York Times article titled My So-Called Blog, by Emily Nussbaum (11 Jan 2004), in which the writer holds forth on blogging among adolescents (with a heavy emphasis on LiveJournal), we find the following:

Ninety percent of those with blogs are between 13 and 29 years old; a full 51 percent are between 13 and 19, according to Perseus [Development Corporation, a company that designs software for online surveys].

So that puts me in solidly with the remaining 10 percent. Then again, the paragraph in which the above statistic appears starts with the following lead:

Only five years ago, mounting an online journal or its close cousin, the blog, required at least a modicum of technical know-how.

I don't know about that, since I started my LiveJournal nearly five years ago, and it was fairly painless then (albeit not as easy to give one's LJ a spiffy look).
* * *I must be getting well and truly tired.

Natalie brought me home a little before 11 last night, whereupon I retired within minutes. I double-checked having set the alarm before lying down and woke this morning at 6 am, with the alarm off, and managed to quit the house within 12 minutes. Blyech.

I need some coffee.

Cheers...

Retire one VAIO...

There comes a time one must grab the bull by the tail and squarely face the situation.

In my case, in the recent past I've spent time getting the VAIO to simply boot to a stable opening screen, which could be considered - on the one hand - as lost income, since my efforts were directed toward getting the machine to work and not translating. On the other hand, if we assume lost time really isn't worth money, because I'd end up spending however many hours it'd take to finish a translation no matter how many distractions were thrown in my direction, one could put off retiring ellroy just about forever, or until the machine simply refused to fire up.

That very nearly happened today. In addition to simply losing about 1000 words of translation, I spent an additional 3 hours trying to get the thing to boot again. I suspect the fan may have seized again and caused the CPU to overheat.

In any event, I got a job last night, due Monday, and I've been trying to work on it on the old VAIO.

Ah! You noticed I call it the "old" VAIO.

Yes, I am the proud owner of a new, smaller, sleeker VAIO, whose name is proust (a joke, I think; a whimsical interpretation of à la recherche du temps perdu), and I hope this one lasts at least three years, the way its predecessor did.

Cheers...