For the current and following days, I plan to post blog pages for some more recent hand writings in my id™ (Inventors Diary). The following letter to my son goes back two weeks and picks up the back story at that point. The in-line URL links are for those readers wishing to be reminded of the original incidents.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

My dearest son,

Yesterday I posted the story about my 1970 design for the self-driving portable computer.

http://digg.com/design/My_First_Portable_Computer

http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/09/1124-my-first-portable-computer/

On January 4, 2009 my blog website had first reached 200 unique visitors for a day. I hoped to better those stats with the writing about my portable computer. Alas, it was not to be. As always, I begin each major post by snapping a profile of beginning site traffic.

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I thought that today would be a good day to catch you up in a letter. I posted two blog entries today. Each contained a letter to IBM.

The first letter was written in 1998 concerning the adoption by IBM of the Linux operating system. The second was a letter I wrote in 1995 concerning OS2 Warp Desktop, Server, and Developer. I posted them at my blog and at digg,com.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/IBM_and_GNU_Linux_Letter_of_1998

http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/10/1125-ibm-and-gnulinux-letter-of-1998/

http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Death_of_OS2_in_1995

http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/10/1126-the-death-of-os2-in-1995/

It is now 4PM and the first post, which is seven and a quarter hours later, has received forty diggs. The most recent post has received twenty diggs. after two and three quarter hours. I am tending to the shouts I receive and am, otherwise, pondering things at work.

I find the repetitive motion gaming pattern of digg.com to be relaxing. I know it to be time wasteful and yet I allow the time to pass by. I think about selling some product but what would I sell? My ego. Would it be a waste of time to set about selling my ego? Service above self is my motto. The lost service time is perhaps the biggest loss of all.

. . . RESOURCES . . .

this: http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/23/112a-son-ibm-history-and-digg/
digg: http://digg.com/people/Son_IBM_History_and_Digg

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