When I'm working on Viney@rd I spend quite a large amount of time surfing the web, checking blogs on Twitter and Facebook. I try to connect with people who could be interested to Viney@rd, of course. Seen from the outside this activity appear to be a waste of time.

My wife once observed me and drew this conclusion. Actually, once, I agreed with her. It was a way to pause in the intervals between tasks. I theorize that people have a fixed efficiency, and there is a limited amount of time to be spent "in the zone", before giving up to something not requiring the same concentration level.

Working in this way, I slowly realized that I started finding some small nuggets here and there. It might be photos, a news fragment or a blog post, all of them worthy somehow. The Internet is a powerful knowledge aggregator and exploring the topic suggested by the accidental finding is often very very easy.
So I learnt of things I didn't know about, like truffles restaurants in New York or Win 7 vulnerabilities. This is called Serendipity, but this term often refers to science discoveries. My serendipity is small an intimate, and makes me a little better, one bit a time.

If you feel like yelling at me because I do not talk about Spreadsheet Automation and BI, do not do it here; download and setup Viney@rd and use the "Complain" feature :o)!

Take Care