Spy Journal 3.0 Filtering the web for you

This article was sparked by reading Cathy's post yesterday titled "Not the real World". In it she muses about how people in the non connected world, those who don't participate as bloggers, or other viral networking systems that the Internet is composed of tend to share a narrow, often inaccurate view of reality, current events, people and ideas.

I think Cathy is absolutely right and I want to explore some reasons as to why.

Maybe one day I will write on here some personal stuff, I mean really personal reality, not just the sanitised for the public version of my reality. My Spy Journal was started as a view inside me, but lately I have covered up who I am with the stuff I write about, work, web technology, Microsoft etc. Maybe one day soon there might be some more about who I am, what drives me, what makes me tick, my version of life?

What do you reckon? Do you care? Do I care even if you don't? Do I know what I think you mean but don't know you mean it? was that confusing - did it even make sense? Does life? Is this too cryptic? All of the above? Hmm lets see. Maybe...

The weekend was mostly spent I not working - the theme to the weekend. Apart from one short appointment that was supposed to happen on Saturday (and ended up being postponed to Monday) I barely touched a computer for work!

Mercedes turned 4 on Saturday so that was lots of fun. We had presents early (as usual) and then I spent a lot of time playing with her, helping her draw and colour in with her new coloured pencils and markers, paying with her new ball (from Grandad and Grandma) and lots of other fun things.

I have been using RescueTime since half way through December. It has proved invaluable to me in order to see how what I am spending my time on. RescueTime is a small application you install on every computer you use. in my case, that's my main machine, my secondary dev machine, my main laptop, my virtual PC and my remote desktop at a clients and another clients laptop I have here to work on (it can be uninstalled later). Of course you can just install it on one machine if you like, but as I discovered I spend time on several. Once you create an account it starts recording your time on applications you use and websites you visit. This is then sent tot he RescueTime servers where it is compiled for your viewing.