August 28, 2004
Link Splurge: The Return
So it's been a while since I posted an entry longer than about 3 lines — I'm not sure why, really. Maybe I've just not had anything to say (but then since when did that stop me?), or something. Who care^Wknows? Anyway, here's what I've been looking at on the web lately.
- Gmail. OK, so it's really old news by now, but I've finally been playing with Gmail. I'm not exactly bowled over by the interface — sure, it's better than any other webmail I've used (although my own squirrelmail setup probably wins on the grounds that it's backed by my own carefully tweaked procmail setup) but I can't see any way to do lots of the things that I do with mutt every day. I hate the posting interface, for not giving me a fixed-pitch font, too. Admittedly, though, for reading mailing lists it seems quite good; I guess the Google guys have a lot of experience from Google Groups on how people read discussion and stuff.
- Bluemars — it's not music, it's background noise. Internet radio, a bit weird, not particularly unpleasant as background noise to have on while working. Oh and there are no talky bits...
- Fear Itself — a long article from the Washington Post about the issues surrounding fear, terrorism, and travelling by bus in Jerusalem. It's really quite long, but somehow compelling reading. (via TSiF)
- AKMA on open wireless networks — in which an "influential and popular philosopher and blogger" is warned against using his laptop within wireless range of a library, by a uniformed police officer.
- mjg59 at CafePress — at last, you could be the proud owner of a t-shirt with green, masturbatory wank on it.
- WeBoggle is multiplayer, online, real-time, entirely-DHTML-driven Boggle. Oddly addictive, and I even won a round today.
- The cat5 o' nine tails now comes in a professional edition
- Ted Kennedy is apparentlly an evil terrorist, or at least conspiring with them.
- I can put photos on the web direct from my mobile. Unfortunately I haven't found anything interesting to take photos of yet, but when I do, I'm sure they'll appear there first....
Finally, I may as well mention that I've made a few changes to the sidebar which, since you're probably reading this in an aggregator, you won't see anyway. But I think it's an improvement.
Posted by James at 23:30
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For the background noise thing, I'd also recommend http://www.somafm.com/ 's... well, everything, but mostly the Secret Agent channel. Really deep frozen chilled stuff, interspersed with James Bond quotes.
Posted by: Aquarion at August 29, 2004 10:55 AM
Hmm. Yes. This SomaFM lark's not bad at all.
Posted by: James at August 30, 2004 08:10 PM