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Like I explained 3 years ago, I don’t do new years resolutions on the whole. But here’s one I’m going to try. To stop using “www” before every web address I type in. This will be a battle of will power more than anything. Overcome a 12 year habit.

It was a stupid idea in the first place, and for that reason most sites don’t even require it. Whilst I was searching for the no-www campaign, a campaign specifically about getting rid of “www”, I came across a story on the subject from 2005. Ironically, this site had “www” before its domain, but the premise of the article suggests that typing www costs the economy billions of dollars in wasted time. This got me thinking. I’ve got 12 years of web usage behind me now. Say I typed “www” 20 times a day, which is not too unrealistic given my job and my obsession with silicon. Between 1 and 2 seconds each time, lets call it 1.5 seconds. Less, say 1 day a week, for downtime throughout the year.

So 1.5secs x 6days x 52weeks x 12years / 60 = 93.6 minutes

I’ve wasted 1.5 hours of my life typing letters that mean nothing!!!

I urge you to try the challenge. See if you can stay www free for a week. I will report my sins in the comments, it will be a hard one to break.

I know what you are thinking. You wasted 2 minutes of your life reading this post. I wasted 30 writing it.

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