Category: Online Life
Social Overload
January 10th, 2012, 16 Comments
I’m finding social media is becoming a bit annoying. I enjoy using it to keep in touch with all sorts of people, but my problem is the proliferation of services that don’t integrate well with each other. Right now, I have: A blog, which I have had for years. I used to post things like [...]
Download A Piece of Internet History
April 28th, 2010, 45 Comments
Back in the early 1990s, before there was a World Wide Web, there was the Internet Gopher. It was a distributed information system in the same sense as the web, but didn’t use hypertext and was text-based. Gopher was popular back then, as it made it easy to hop from one server to the next [...]
Review: Linux IM Software
February 15th, 2010, 15 Comments
I’ve been looking at instant messaging and chat software lately. Briefly stated, I connect to Jabber and IRC networks from at least three different computers. I don’t like having to sign in and out on different machines. One of the nice features about Jabber (XMPP) is that I can have clients signing in from all [...]
Mailing List Hosting
August 10th, 2009, 7 Comments
I’ve hosted email lists of one sort or another probably all the way back to 1995, when I first bought complete.org as an email-only domain fed off a UUCP connection on a long-distance dialup link. I’ve only used two mailing list hosting programs in that whole time: Majordomo and Ecartis (used to be known as [...]
Web Design Companies That Understand Technology
November 18th, 2008, 5 Comments
There are a lot of companies out there that do web design work that looks fabulous. Unfortunately, a lot of these sites look fabulous only when viewed in IE6 build xxxx, with a 75dpi monitor, fonts set to the expected size, running on Windows XP SP2, with JavaScript enabled. Try looking at the site through [...]
Converted to WordPress
November 17th, 2008, 3 Comments
I have been using Serendipity on my blog for some time now. Overall, I’ve been pleased with it, but the conversion was a pain. Serendipity is a simple blog engine, and has a wonderful built-in plugin system. It can detect what plugins need upgrading, and install those upgrades, all from directly within the management interface. [...]
Twitter and Identica Dilemma
September 8th, 2008, 12 Comments
Since July, I’ve been trying out Twitter and its open-source competitor identi.ca. Both are microblogging sites, with Twitter being the largest and most well-established of them. Both let you follow people with their 140-character updates via the web, or with alerts on your phone. My dilemma involves how to make this work for me. For [...]
Video uploading sites?
July 3rd, 2008, 9 Comments
I’m working on switching from using a Mac to using Linux for editing video. I have a mini-DV camcorder that a bought a few years back, and I’ve been looking at capture and editing software for Linux. Along with that, I want to post some videos online for family to be able to see I [...]
Towards Better Bookmark Syncing: del.icio.us and diigo
May 3rd, 2008, 8 Comments
I use Firefox (well, Iceweasel) from several machines. On a daily basis, at least three: my workstation at home, my workstation at work, and my laptop. I have wanted to have my bookmarks synced between all three of them for some time. I’ve been using unison to sync them, which mostly works. But firefox likes [...]
