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Archives for May 2007
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May 31, 2007 by 2 Comments
Babies, Cops, and Fear
May 30, 2007 by 8 Comments
Fear is a terrible thing. It can stop you from doings things you want to do, and generally ruin your life. Fear, of course, is a basic human emotion and we’re all bound to experience it at some point or other. The trick, however, is not to let it get too you too much. Kirima‘s latest post got me thinking about fear. I was re-reading ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ recently and got intrigued by the statement: “Being poor is a choice.” I think that being afraid, to some extent, is also a choice albeit one that is probably compounded by one’s psychological make-up. That said, you can always choose not to be afraid. Think about it.
This short post was inspired by this week’s Comments For Beer winners. Here’s the link love:
Kirima starts us off with a nice post about fear, including definitions of the different types of fear and also includes helpful and interesting links. Great stuff.
Majonzi talks about babies and asks whether one can be too old to have some, and whether it is fair on the babies..
Gala explains how to be genuine with people you dislike. You know, those people you are nice to but really don’t care a bit about.
How to deal with stupid cops. Cops, especially in this part of the world can be really stupid. Archer gives a personal account of how he dealt with sheer stupidity. Didn’t someone once say that the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits?
Finally, Egm takes a break from his breathtaking photography and points out what is quite possibly the secret to life.
It’s been a while since I’ve given some link love – I’ve been real busy lately – so if you’ve commented here lately, hold on, you’ll get some link love soon. By the way, anyone can get some Link Love from me. Just leave a relevant comment anywhere on this blog. Read the Rules.
Mobile Survival Kit
May 28, 2007 by 5 Comments
Once you really get to like the internet and use it consistently, the worst thing that can happen probably is your internet connection going down. We all hate it, but it does happen. Maybe you were expecting an important email, or need to make a blog post or, like me, need to sign in to the game you play. What to do, what to? Well, you can drive to town and get online there or you can check out some of the following sites on your mobile device.
Mobile Survival Kit
Opera Mini – this should be the first thing you get for your internet-enables mobile device. Opera mini allows you to surf the web on mobile devices with some degree of normalcy. As far as I can tell, you can visit any site using Opera Mini. “Superb web browser for almost any mobile phone that supports Java and WAP/GPRS internet connection! And I could never have imagined that there could be a web browser that is made with Java and still runs fast on the notably slow processors of this kind of phones – but this does. Not only that, but it also shows the pages amazingly well considering that the screen is really small for webpages – even a bit complicated and large pages can be viewed relatively painlessly. I would not expect it to be even possible 😡” by Robsku.
Unfortunately, Opera Mini does not wor on all mobile devices. However, there are still other options:
mDog – this is a mobile portal for your device’s web browser. With mDog, you can do anything you would do using an Internet browser. Surf your favorite websites, search for information – even read and update blogs in real-time… from anywhere. It provides access to the Internet in a cleaner, faster-loading, easy-to-browse mobile format. mDog formats websites so that you can view them on your device. You can read your favorite blogs, check your email, and even visit sites like Craigslist and Facebook. Morever, register as a member and you can customize mobile editions of the most popular sites.
Finally, we have movamail. Movamail is an application that you download to your mobile device. It gives you pretty fast and efficient access to your email. It works with Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, POP3, and IMAP.
President Kibaki on Myspace
May 28, 2007 by 2 Comments
While checking my email today, I found a nice surprise: “President Kibaki wants to be added as your friend.” Despite my personal views, that was quite flattering. As far as I can tell, President Kibaki’s Profile on myspace has been set up to help out in the campaign for the upcoming general elections. I think it’s high time our politicians embrace technology fully. Kudos to the president for that. Let’s hope he doesn’t run into any trouble.
I think the profile is a little strange, especially the ‘I Love you’ message. All in all, I like what he’s trying to do. Just a bit hard picturing the president seated behind a computer whiling his time away on myspace.
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What do you think of this? Is it really the president behind this?
DOG/FOG
May 25, 2007 by 2 Comments
I thought I’d never see the day when I’d see people fear and/or distrust Google, the company everyone loves to love. Fear of Google (FOG) and Distrust/Disdain of Google(DOG) has been all over the web lately.
Click here to read no less than 11 high profile bloggers write on this issue.
What do you think of this? I think its just a case of power corrupting Google’s original values. When you get that big, you also get a little bit stupid, right?
I see Dead People
May 22, 2007 by 2 Comments
You do too. They are all around us, reminding us constantly of their life and death.
What happens to your online self when you die? “More than a year after his death, Aaron Huth continues to haunt those who knew him. His profile on the behemoth six-degrees-of-separation Web site Friendster.com still lets people know that in May of 2003 he was listening to bands like the Birthday Party and the Postal Service and reading Nietzsche. His likes a
nd interests were frozen for posterity on May 26, 2003, the last time he logged into the site.” Read the rest of this article over at citypaper.com.
I have always been intrigued at what happens when you die. Offline, we may never know but online, your ‘life’ never ends. There is simply no way for sites like myspace or facebook to differentiate between dead users and inactive users. Your online profile will be frozen in time for as long as the internet exists and will remind everyone of what you were doing during your life. Of course people may forget you and stop visiting your profile but a la google, someone in the future may search for something and end up in your profile. How is he supposed to know you’re dead? The internet may be filling up with dead people, and we have no way of knowing whether they’re alive or dead.
“Voices. That’s what people are, in the hypertextual world. A multiplicity of disembodied voices. In that view, there is no concrete difference between the words of the living and the words of the deceased. The real lives of the speakers are only things that occur in the background of the wired world.” Read the rest from this in a very thoughtful article on this topic.
What do you think of the dead among the living?
Image Courtesy of VintageRos.
Meebo, the IM King
May 21, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Have you ever been to a site that you just can’t stop talking about? Meebo is one such site. It’s so cool that I am going to talk about it again. Yes, I have already covered meebo here. The idea behind meebo is simple: instant messaging(im). I think it’s the best im website on the internet. At meebo, you can log in to any im platform (msn, yahoo, google talk…) free of charge, free of any downloads, and from anywhere with a internet connection. What’s more, you can log in to all your yahoo, msn, google talk accounts at the same time! What does that mean? Take me, for example, I have aim, msn, and three yahoo accounts. I log in to all FIVE using one meebo username and password and voila! I’m chatting away with my contacts in no time.
But that’s not all. Admit it, there are times you log in to chat and find no one online. There is no one to talk to(all your contacts have lives, you know). What to do? Meebo recently introduced Meebo Rooms. Yup, now when I log into those FIVE accounts using ONE username, I also log into lots of chatrooms that I can join whenever I want to and chat away! It gets better, though. You can make your own meebo chatroom and invite people into it or even embed it on your website.
Meebo is awesome. It is useful, and fun to use. I have to say the design is pretty and very friendly. Now, does anyone wonder why meebo is always ranked top 10 as far as web 2.0 websites go?
It seems web-based im is catching on. Yahoo! recently introduced a web-based messenger service. If you so wish, you can get rid of your yahoo messenger software and do all your chatting on that website. It’s no competition to meebo but, having tried it out, it is quite nice. Though I dislike that your conversations are sent to your inbox. Is there a way to turn this off?
Do you know the easy way of finding and keeping online friends? You may want to check that out before you head over to meebo.
some jargon
aim – America Online Instant Messenger
msn – used to mean microsoft’s instant messenger
I decided to write yet again about meebo because my meebo experience keeps getting better and better. I want to share my enthusiasm.