Oooh! Firefox 3. Hope I haven’t wrecked everything

I just went and deleted reliable Firefox 2.0.0.16 and dumped 3.0.7 into my applications folder. And now, I try to remember which things I had to struggle with six months ago. It chucked out my Piggy Bank, but that was something from MIT Media Lab that never really worked for me. The Delicious button couldn't … Continue reading Oooh! Firefox 3. Hope I haven’t wrecked everything

Tried using Posterous for a group writing exercise; not a top success

I thought that Posterous might be a useful, easy, collaboration tool. The barriers to entry are low and the user interface is email. However, it didn't really work. I made a crucial, but probably inevitable, mistake. And, for sharers there is the need to create an account. I hadn't counted on that. I thought that … Continue reading Tried using Posterous for a group writing exercise; not a top success

My ideal PDA wish list; is what I want a netbook?

I want a small, wifi connected PDA. The ideal machine has 1) good wifi 2) email client and off-line email writing/reading facility 3) full feature web browser preferably running Flash (and Air?) 4) calendar that syncs with Brookes Oracle & my MacBook Pro preferably through the Oracle Calendar client (iCal does not cut it - … Continue reading My ideal PDA wish list; is what I want a netbook?

how about a MOOC on rebuilding wealth in the commons @Downes

I share Stephen Downes' view (repeated here: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=47753 ) about efforts afoot to convert public wealth into private (and increasingly stateless) wealth. Actually the agency is too passive in that phrase - there are people working hard at it. PayPal is an example of an explicit attempt to engineer this. "One solution: move control of … Continue reading how about a MOOC on rebuilding wealth in the commons @Downes

Installing parallels v4 on top of v3 seems to have gone smoothly: virtual machine intact & Nvivo running :)

Installing Parallels 4 seems to have been entirely unproblematic. It detected my Parallels 3 environment, backed it up, removed v3 and installed v4. I have about 4 back-ups lying around now, but it appears to have behaved very well. Time consuming given the number of times 12GB got copied. Nvivo is up and running maybe … Continue reading Installing parallels v4 on top of v3 seems to have gone smoothly: virtual machine intact & Nvivo running 🙂

Posterous has closed the camera, phone, Flickr loop for me

I was mildly annoyed (a usual state for me) a year or three ago when Ericsson bundled Blogger in the firmware of their good camera phones. I didn't want to set up a Blogger ID, all I wanted to do was post to Flickr. For a while I tried to use Shozu (http://www.shozu.com/portal/index.do), but its … Continue reading Posterous has closed the camera, phone, Flickr loop for me

The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?

Contemporary poetry often runs the risk of being too academic and not enough of the world. The poet needs to be a wilfully unmediating place for poetry to be drawn from a globally local collective conscious. Either the force exerted by poems must be immediate, direct and great or, like the butterfly wings of chaos, … Continue reading The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?

Well, you *can* tag posterous posts as you write them

But the tags do not propagate to this WP bog. I have added them, later. It is interesting using email as a blogging environment. I have been using Ecto for several years to post to LiveJournal, WordPress and TypePad blogs or using web interfaces for Elgg (or feeds in). One good thing about Ecto is … Continue reading Well, you *can* tag posterous posts as you write them

Posterous allows you to manage posts to multiple channels via email

I like Posterous (http://posterous.com/). It is extremely easy to set up an account and it does useful things via email. I have posted this to my Brookes Blog and my Posterous blog from my email client. It is also possible to update Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs. See http://posterous.com/autopost. I am still exploring the service, … Continue reading Posterous allows you to manage posts to multiple channels via email