Monday Sep 01, 2008   Despite having half a dozen computing
devices within reach at any time (Eric Schmidt was right in 1995
when he said "In the future your body will have 5 IP addresses;
where you put them is your business"), I'm still a stickler for
sticky notes, notebooks, scribbled thoughts on the back of tear-
off calendar pages, and literally back of the envelope
calculations. At one point I had two "work notebooks" (one new,
one old), a collection of stickies on my home iMac, another set
on my ancient TravelMac, and an assortment of things that seemed
to accrete in the reporter's notebook I keep in my car's center
console.  I crave simple. I still use vi for editing text files,
and I send email without capital letters (this is because of a
long-standing belief that "chording" on the keyboard contributes
to carpal tunnel syndrome, so I attribute 28 years of healthy
paws to my devolved typographical style. Thanks, pep). At the
same time, I am constantly tearing items out of print materials
or bookmarketi