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"Adam, you've reached a new low."
"What, I'm supposed to have something better to do on Saturday night than watch VH1's Behind the Music on Vanilla Ice?"
Yet another conversation you don't want to have your ex, brought to you by Adam Mathes, total loser.
I'm currently obsessing over web apps and resources about them.
webapps.editthispage.com is a great weblog about web apps. browswerware lists web apps with a brief description, and anyone can suggest one to add.
As usual, I'm thinking up a meta level - what would be the best way to organize, catalog, review, and share links to web based applications? The weblog format seems insufficient - it's great to find something new and interesting daily, but trying to find specific things later is a hassle, and there's no real useful underlying structure to the data to allow searching or categorization. I like the "anyone can submit" format on browserware, but I want more than just a quick blurb about the apps, I think.
And I don't think a categorized link list or "portal" is sufficient either. As the field of web applications grows, I want to be able to sit down, type into a search box exactly what I want to accomplish, or what kind of service I'm looking for, and get a relevant list of sites, with descriptions, reviews... I guess this is starting to sound like some kind of epinions rip off. Except that I don't really care about that whole "web of trust" thing because it makes my brain hurt.
I don't know. Maybe I should try to whip up something simple this weekend before classes start to monopolize all my time. And it would give me an excuse to develop something with zope. Then again, it is 80 and sunny outside, it seems "wrong" to sit inside coding something useless.
And I really want to go to the Webapps 2000 conference, but I don't think it's going to happen.
I was reading about and playing with zope and I think it's really nifty, but it's too nice out to be inside staring at a computer screen and doing web dev. I'm going to go take a walk and read a book instead. I'll figure out how I'm going to create important things that will change the internet tomorrow.
I'm trying out Beam-It at my.mp3.com. [some background from wired]
I just "beamed about 80 albums. I really like the idea of being able to listen to any part of my cd collection anywhere there's a high speed internet connection. This is a great service. I mean, wow, there's actually some good things going on using mp3. There's more to mp3's than that stupid piracy app. And despite what others allege I think this is pretty obviously fair use.
Only a handful of my CD's weren't in the database. One was Flammable Dress's self-titled debut, which is a shame. Go have a listen - I really like them. And not just because Sally Moore, their vocalist, was my English teacher in high school.
I'm through with BeOS. Sure, the personal "run along-side windows" edition is "free" now - but the upgrade for old skool users like me that paid good money a long time ago in the hopes that Be was the new Amiga is $30. Are they kidding? They're giving away the OS now and they want me to pay for a god damned upgrade?
I love blogger. I really do.
Note the "semi-perma-links" are now "perma-links."
Not that anybody reads or links this weblog anyway. Umm, yeah. Never mind. Sorry to waste your time. Please move along.
This Salon article - Keep a Web journal, get fired ... or worse will probably be linked in tons of weblogs today. And with good reason.
There are definitely "issues" with personal publishing and emoting online. I don't really know what I think about it anymore.
I am kind of sorry I never got around to reading mark's quietriot. I just felt it was too weird to ask someone who I only knew through blogging and a brief email exchange for the password to his personal diary.
I knew I was back home in the weird alterna-universe bizarro world that is California when all the billboards were for "e-companies" and had urls on them.
"How was Spring Break?"
"You ever watch MTV's Spring Break, with all the sun, the tropical beaches, rock stars, and half-naked beautiful women?"
"Yeah."
"It was absolutely nothing like that."
