Random Articles

• Adium Install Makes Me Giggle Everytime Aside from the simplicity of drag-n-drop install, grabbing the duck by the head cracks me up.
• To Do Before I Die: Get 99 Other People to Speak My Made Up Language While Toki Pona’s minimalism feels too much like Newspeak for my taste, the notion of creating a new common-use language is an intriguing thought. Especially if the language’s biases were deliberate - and I agreed w/ them - from the beginning. Initial thought: a highly technolibertarian version of Dutch. Thanks to: Hobbies in everything-
• Reorganizing Apophenia For those of you reading this via RSS, I’ve redesigned the site. Tweaking and torquing Scott Wallick’s VeryPlainTxt theme. I’ve also re-org’d the sections, and generally make the site more extendible, while also pulling in my writing from other sites into the sidebar. One of those sites being my account on Flickr. In the sidebar
• The Almost Always On, Not Quite Everywhere Network One of the reasons I’ve always been skeptical, cynical, and generally a wet-blanket on browser-only software is unreliable networks. Everywhere I go - there isn’t a network connection. So, any browser-only information I might need (email, documents, photos, etc) are completely inaccessible on my fully wifi-enable, ethernet-ready laptop. “I’ve got draft posts on Google Docs — and
• I’d Rather I Could Read You Here “the more time I spend w/ FriendFeed, the less I like it. I’d rather read y’all through my own blog.” If services like Friendfeed, Twitter, etc, have an innovation, it’s in present reading and publishing in the save view. This single view - often described as ‘presence’ or ’social-ness’ - makes it easy to write