Departure
Exactly.
This past Wednesday, I ended my tenure at Lime Wire. It’s been a great two years and change, but it’s time for something different. What does the future hold in store? I’m not sure. LimeSpot was a side-project at Lime Wire, and this time around I want to make sure I’m in the thick of it. Some sort of buck needs to stop at my desk. My mind’s also flirting with the idea of self-employment, but the what and how still needs answering.
If you’re interested, stay tuned. The writings of an unemployed bum should be fascinating. A little taste:
Friday, September 19
I did laundry for the second day in a row. Frak me.
Credit for the drawing above goes to Mr. Jorge at Lime Wire, one of the many whom I’ll miss working with. For all of you – it was my pleasure and honor. The best of luck.
iChat AV
I’ve had a bit of trouble with video conferencing lately, but it now seems that:
iChat AV + Internet Sharing = Communication Error
Wonder if that’s a known bug.
An additional tip: to test AV, add the following Apple test buddies (AIM):
appleu3test01appleu3test02appleu3test03
Update
Someone at Apple has a sense of humor?
Careful what you wish for
I like to keep things simple. To that end, on a daily basis I get by with the help of a minimal group of web services, namely, Gmail and Google Reader. Delicious, however, creeps in every so often as a useful web-based bookmarking service, and to its credit, I rarely bookmark anything locally.
A few weeks ago, I lodged a complaint to my peers: I wish I could “star” any ol’ page in Google Reader. I often mark interesting posts or stuff I want to revisit later and it seems redundant to use Delicious in the same way for anything that isn’t a feed. Since Google exposes shared and starred posts as well, the social spread isn’t necessarily hampered. Smash them together.
Then I found it:
Notes is Google’s answer to my request. It lets you bookmark any web page as a Note, which can be tagged, shared or starred.. I believe there used to be a separate service of this sort (Notebook or something?), but it truly finds a nice home inside Reader. There’s even a requisite JavaScript bookmarklet for quick entry.
Yet… I’m still finding it hard to dump Delicious for a few reasons. First, Delicious makes sure tagging is front and center, while Google doesn’t provide an entry field inside the bookmarklet’s pop-up. Having to navigate afterwards to the Note inside Reader is an unacceptable barrier to well-organized tags. Second, Delicious makes sharing and discovery much, much easier. I can specifically send a bookmark to a fellow user and quickly click around to uncover more interesting sites and links. Google doesn’t really have an answer for this.
In a way, this is an example of the classical “macro vs. micro” problem. The all-in-one printer-scanner-copier pitted against three separate machines. Convenience versus specialization. Reader’s about feeds and may never do general purpose bookmarks as well as Delicious. Maybe it doesn’t need to.
Nonetheless, I’m left with some questions that reveal how deeply I crave tidiness and a well-defined tao for all things. To a fault perhaps. Do I cleave and share posts in Reader, pages in Delicious? Should I write something that syncs them? Should I re-bookmark everything as Notes and have done with it?
Or fuck it. Friendfeed manages to capture it all anyway.
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