# Nicholson Baker's Post-It

The internet is killing me. I keep surfing the web when I'm supposed to be writing code! Just then, as I sat down to do some work, I "remembered" reading an article on Nicholson Baker which described how he has a Post-It note stuck to his screen reminding him to "ONLY E-MAIL"--and so I decided I had to hunt this down for my quotes file! Another 5 minutes gone!

"He [Nicholson Baker] lost a month of 2003 to his obsession with the news, swore off Google News and blogs--he now has a Post-It on his screen saying ONLY E-MAIL--and finally wrote the first draft of "Checkpoint" in April 2004, during the siege of Fallujah, because he could think about nothing else."

-- David Gates, "<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5567879/site/newsweek/">Target: The President</a>", Newsweek, 2004-08-09