When I first read about “Spaces” and saw the screenshots in OSX Leopard, I felt like it could be a huge potential productivity booster. Those from the Linux fold have been rotating cubes and “spaces” for quite some time - and of course when Leopard came out with it, they all chirped in to remind me, “that’s been on Linux for awhile.” Yea yea yea - but is it sold by an egomaniac who only wears black turtlenecks? Didn’t effin think so…

Anyhow, when I actually got Spaces - it ended up being anti-climatic. It didn’t really work how I thought it would (in my many pre-Leopard, about Leopard dreams) and it seemed like it was a bit buggy. I have seen many people turning spaces off, frustrated with it’s apparent shortcomings - but I am not one to let initial excitement die so easily - so I rolled with the punches for awhile. Fast forward three months and I am now moving from space to space like a Puppeteer on a powder day (sci-fi/drug connection makes reading all the better).

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Wired.com relaunched a few months back and at first exposure, I have to admit I felt a little betrayed. I always liked their quick scan of content and I had been going to the site for so long that any type of change seemed like a bad idea (this same reaction was felt when nytimes.com relaunched, which now I am fond of. It’s not you, it’s me).

But here it is, the year two-thousand and seven, june, and I must say the new site has grown on me. Certain things still don’t feel quite right (list of articles is hard to scan, usability seems to point at ad clicking trickery), but overall the biggest thing that has swayed the new site to my favor is the way they are assigning a hierarchy to their top level stories. Check it out. It’s kind of nice going to a site and having it say to you, “this is what you should be reading.” Not in an annoying in your face star burst kind of way, but in a subtle “water flows downhill” kind of way.

Then I went there today…
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Danielle, my girlfriend, has a migraine headache. She is lying in bed, sensitive to light, movement, and any other form of sensory perception. Thank goodness she can’t read my mind, I am a shitty caretaker. With this migraine being worse than the one before, and the one before being worse than the one before, Danielle, who is afraid of needles, has opted to track down a doctor to give her a shot.

The problem is, her normal doctor’s office is closed today. Any new doctors she would like to see require a three week wait time for new patients. That leaves us with a handful of emergency/urgent care facilities in the Portland area.

This shouldn’t be to hard to compile a list right?
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