How do you build a TARDIS? Well it’s like this … OK, so maybe it is the wrong colour, but it is close, and it beats the TARDIS you made.

By default only your default calendar is synced to your iPhone. This is a real pain when you have more than one calendar. So, how? It’s easy. Log into Google, then go to this URL: https://www.google.com/

You really should go and look at these books, over here.  

If you are wondering why I don’t post much here you can blame two things:

• Facebook
• My new website

This new website is called Story a Week. Much like the title suggests, I write a new story each week for an entire year. It’s mostly Sci-Fi, Fantasy/Urban Fantasy with a few other genres thrown in – such as horror or erotica. Please go take a look, it’s been running for six months already so it has quite a bit of content already!

CreationRobot is moving from Xsession.com to Aztus.ca   This is for two reasons, Aztus is cheaper and Canadian. As I now live in Canada all my services have been moving to Canada, CR is the last.   Sorry if this takes anything offline – it should only be brief.

The newest Aeros zeppelin might be coming to a sky near you in 2013. In an effort to reduce fuel and helium usage on airships and blimps, the company, headed by Igor Pasternak, is testing  a project called Pelican.

I wrote a  this incomplete post back in 2009 and never published it. It’s interesting to look back on where I was going with this from the distant future that is 2011.  I’ve done a little editing and some additions for the flow and added a retrospective on the end. So welcome back to 2009: I am a terrible procrastinator. Scratch that, I am a damn good procrastinator. I can procrastinate until the cows come home, go out again and, well, place that on perpetual repeat. Eventually they’d die of old age waiting for my epic procrastination to end. I am the best. The only person who comes near me is the late great Douglas Adams, who, bless him, could have represented planet earth in the intergalactic procrastination Olympics. I now have to take on that challenge. Or I would, but I’d never attend due to procrastination. I’ve suffered a lot of different things in my life, slings and arrows of my own making and those from others. The worst are my own, of course, here’s a sample of amazing volume of self created weaponry that I have thrown at my brain: Overly active inner critique Severe depression Hording Cluttering And sharp pointy things of others making such as divorce, betrayal and the general failure of humanity(!) So 2007 was my super low point, 2008 a little better, 2009 was alright until the end, 2010 was meh, anyway I intend to make a step up and beyond. I’m doing this in a number of ways: Tackling my depression for good rather than for the now Getting on top of my desire to horde. And - This is a departure for the CreationRobot blog, a blog that was and is remaining to be successful despite my disinterest. I’ve decided to come out of the blogging closet, so to speak, and make this into less of a link blog and more about personal thought, life and experience. Do I expect anyone to be interested in my thoughts, life and experience? Oh lord no! Why should you be! Don’t be silly! I’m incurring no charge by writing this, and you are equally free to read this – or not. So let’s pretend you have enjoyed this post together and we can both be happy. Please leave a comment, it makes my day reading them. You can also catch my personal Twitter at flapfoo. So here we are in the future again, completing the past, or at least twisting it. So did I beat depression? Oddly yes, I get low but not depressed. No, I’m not on drugs, prescribed or otherwise. Depression itself is an addiction and it’s damn hard to beat because your mind wants to keep you depressed. When I understood that then I could move forward; plus a million other factors but it would be about as dull going into them as watching a sloth sleep. How about making CreationRobot shift from a BoingBoing / Neatorama link blog to a more personal blog? Nope, I’ve opted out of blogging all together. ‘Why stop blogging?’ I don’t hear you ask, I’ll answer you anyway as I’m just like that: Facebook – I send links to that and get more instant feedback on FB than I ever got on CreationRobot. Way less readers of course, but more fulfilling for me. Twitter – When you have no time, but you are enthusiastic enough to want to post I turn to Twitter. I doubt it will stick, I’ve tried Twitter many times and just can’t get into it for long periods of time. Time -Speaking of time, I have less time to spend blogging. My work is harder and more time consuming as I get older. I have a daughter and a partner that need my attention more than a blog. So is blogging dead? Of course not, it is just not the juggernaut that it was, now it’s just another niche. The 800lb banana smushing gorilla of the Internet is Facebook, with the smaller apes of LinkedIn, MySpace and so on, following in its wake. Did I beat procrastination? Did you really need to ask that? This post originated in 2009! I may never beat procrastination but I still think about it sometimes, like now for example. I’ll probably do a follow up post on procrastination, probably. So what now for CreationRobot, one of the venerable internet blogs, yes it’s that old. I’m not sure, I’ve struggled with how to keep pulling CreationRobot forward with me as I move through life. I’m going to try updating a bit more often than 3 or 4 times a year with whatever takes my fancy. The more I try an codify my blog, the more I tell myself it should be THIS, no wait, this, the more I trap myself and make it impossible to update it. So, my dear website, fly and be free. You are no longer to be anything, you can be everything.

The Inattention Age, part 2, or Why I love the Internet So you may have read my idea on the ‘Inattention Age‘. This is of course in response to the concept of the Attention Age, which intellectually I find to be the wrong term entirely. The Attention Age Wikipedia page is the first hit in Google, so it is a term that is defining itself. I created a Wikipedia page for Inattention Age and it was flagged for deletion in about 5 minutes as the mod googled the term and found nothing about it. Annoying but fair enough, I thought, so I have to get the idea out. Ironically, due to the Inattention Age, the idea is unlikely to gain traction unless it comes from a ‘source’, and by source I mean some highly visible spokes-thing; a person or website. The volume and speed of updates assumes things will get lost in the wash, information needs a source that is publically weighty enough to give it traction. That’s the way it has always been of course, politicians, stars, tabloid opinions hold sway, no matter how vapid, due to the fact they get ears and eyeballs. As an infrequent blogger, very much Z-list, my opinion online carried no such weight, again annoying but fair enough. So how do ideas, concepts, new ways of looking at things get out into  public thought? They explode though a source or seep through the everyman. The latter is what the Internet allows, and bless the Internet’s cotton socks, it sometimes works. This is proven again and again by memes that take over, however briefly, those eyes and ears. I’ve had conceptual ideas before that I felt made no ground, such as my concept of digital history degradation, where your online past is virtually forgiven or forgotten after a period of time. That concept was, of course, postulated by others as well and it has seeped out. I like to think I was a part of that. If someone asks you ‘What’s the point of the Internet?’, or some subset of the Internet like blogs or Twitter, then you can answer to allow seepage. The Internet allow ideas from the everyman to get out, to be ignored or taken up, no matter how thoughtful, vapid or outright crazy, the Internet is present for the everyman. Long live the freedom of the un-commercial and uncensored Internet.