Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Youtube Strikes Back / Return of Thing 16
I uploaded a video. Unfortunately I failed to shrink the resolution so it took forever to upload, but that was something worth learning.
“The problem of the plastic ring,” a short film starring Slinky:
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Thing 18: Facebook and SpamSpace
I signed up to Facebook in late 2007 and have used many of its features since then. Its “Notes” app is very basic, not nearly as useful as the blogging tools on Wordpress or Blogger, but that’s fine since I go there mostly to get a quick overview of what my friends are doing [...]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Thing 17: Podcasts
I have for been listening to the Metafilter podcasts for about nine months, though I don’t subscribe to them because I don’t like how the stack up and begin to seem like a chore instead of a pleasure. I know about RSS, including for podcasts, but still won’t be subscribing to them for the [...]
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Thing 16: Youtube
Youtube, huh? Well, it’s Web 2.0 but the 2.0 part of it (user feedback) is the worst of any I’ve seen on the web. The comments are almost uniformly stupid.
PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE [...]
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Thing 15: Rollyo
I rolled one. It didn’t work. It was intended to be an image searching roll, and at first it had four sites defined: flickr, altavista images, google images, and yahoo images.
The first time I tried it, it pulled results only from Flickr. I deleted Flickr from the URL list and tried again. [...]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Thing 14: Online Productivity Tools
I had an iGoogle home page already and stuck with it; it had a ToDo gadget on it already and I’m happy with it so I didn’t try any others. And I was already using Google Calendar and am happy with that too, so I didn’t try any new ones.
I was surprised that one [...]
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Thing 13: LibraryThing
I set up a new account at LibraryThing and added a dozen books. Two of them were incredibly popular (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell) but the rest weren’t nearly as popular (including The Complete Maus).
Some of the reviews on show were brilliant, very perceptive [...]
