Before purchasing my Asus Eee, I knew that one of the primary uses was going to be as a portable Internet radio to listen to my favorite L.A. radio stations ( I’m originally from SoCA).

Now  I’m thinking that the highest value I get from it,  is to be able to kick back on the couch and read online documentation that I previously had to sit up at the desk and read on the desktop monitor.

I make it a point to spend at least 15/20 minutes a day reading jQuery and/or Django documentation, checking out API specs and features that don’t relate to any specific task I currently have.  While reading, I never fail to complete some “click” in my brain as to how something works under the hood, or to discover some super-useful or powerful feature in Django pertaining to using forms, or templates.

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