I was reading an excellent article the other day that I thought I would like to bookmark it in StumbleUpon. Whether that meant I was discovering it or voting on it because someone else had discovered it, I don’t know. I also couldn’t find out because you can’t vote on sites without the toolbar and […]
Technology
Good advice, great software, bad timing
When I was studying for the HSC (final high school exams) I alphabetised my CD collection. Does everyone do that? Does everyone find normally silly or mundane tasks scintillating and satisfying when there’s something worse to do?
Anonymity + Audience = Stumbled?
There’s a lot of talk recently about StumbleUpon, among other social bookmarking sites, and how it’s a good way to discover new things that interest you as well as driving traffic to your site. Not yet a believer I still remain somewhat sceptical of StumbleUpon. Perhaps it’s because I don’t really want to spend hours […]
Inbox Zero
I watched/listened to a Google Tech Talk by Merlin Mann today, Inbox Zero. It was great! I had started thinking, “Do I really need to be keeping all these comments on my computer?” I’ve been staring at Mail, which now has the threaded emails feature enabled (I was so stoked when I discovered it, or […]
Cancer is what now?
I overheard a woman on the train say “I don’t miss my hair, I don’t feel bad about going bald because it means that the treatment I’m having is working.” It’s nice that she doesn’t feel bad about herself, but it made me a little sad because it’s not necessarily true. I don’t know what […]
What gets thrown in your back yard?
Do you think about what you throw away, the things you never lay eyes on again? Do you think about the things that get washed away from your sight? Much of it never really goes away. Today, October 15th, is Blog Action Day. A day for us to spread awareness abut environmental issues. This semester […]