I just finished reading Louis Gray’s blog post about streaming versus conventional blogging, With the example of Steve Rubel’s Posterous. Then had another look at Rubel’s writings. Rubel conceives a situation where content producers might abandon traditional websites – the “hubs” of today’s web – in favor of placing their content on services like Facebook …
I have found it possible to create documents in Google Docs that it is impossible to convert to MS Word docs, or download or email. In such cases you can only copy and paste. Some Google docs can’t even be opened by Google Docs. If these are things that I’ve come across, as a fairly …
Just noticed the tags feature in Windows 7, which corresponds to keywords in Office 2007. It would be possible to forego folder organization and just use tags. Folders are an old fashioned way of organizing files, and we really should no longer be using these today. With tags we could also bring together files which …
Yesterday I installed Windows 7 in the empty partition of my laptop hard drive – the one that had held Windows Vista. The latter stopped working a few months ago, as did HP’s rescue partition. It was very simple to install Windows 7. The only difficulty was finding the Windows boot manager after reinstalling the …
In recent days I’ve had this strange thing: a bitter taste in the mouth after eating food. It’s a recurring condition that comes, lasts a few days, then goes away again. Every few months I get this. Besides the bitter taste, there’s a slight discomfort in the upper part of the stomach sometimes. Reading on …
I purchased my third bluetooth mouse in a year today. The first was a Level-One BLM-3000. Quickly abandoned on grounds that it wasn’t comfortable, had poor battery life and frequently lost receptivity – leaving me wondering whether it was time to change the batteries again, or just something wrong with the connection. The second was …
I was somehow sick yesterday – woke up feeling very low energy. In mid-morning I had loose bowel movements, throughout the day felt zift. And it was also quite a busy day, with the annual test for the car, a visit from the guy that replaces our water filter, two trips to Modiin to take …
“The Art of Resistance: Culture and the Boycott of Israel.” Long, but interesting. With Omar Barghouti and Ahdaf Soueif. From March 2009
I admit to testing tools just for the fun of it; so I find myself hovering between a dozen different networks, without much commitment to any of them. Some of these I treat as news sources. Facebook is the only one I look for any kind of social connections, but I tend to be stingy …
Thursday, March 5 We started a four day retreat with Chang How, a Thich Nhat Hanh disciple, at Khukuk, a kibbutz just above the Sea of Galilee. We arrived Wednesday lunch time and it will continue till Saturday afternoon. During the evening meditation I thought again about what Murakami wrote at the prize ceremony in …