I hate software

I use both Rapportive and Gist. Rapportive is nice because it shows me info about the person that sent me an email. Usually. But I generally get the full name and stuff like that.

Gist pretty much tries to put everything together, but since everything is javascript, even running under Firefox 4 makes it rather clunky. I haven’t tried Chrome, maybe I’ll try that combination next. But Gist is pretty damn manual intensive. It won’t go out like Rapportive to even see if it can figure out what somebody’s real name is, which would be a big help. I don’t like the way the news goes, it’s just a bit too much, and why some of those people are ranked so high in importance while others are ignored (which I have fixed manual, it’s the others I guess I need to fix, but sheesh, that’s another manual operation…)

I think I saw Scoble claim that he liked Gist over Rapportive, but I just don’t see why. Rapportive gets me information without even having to hit the site. I don’t find it slowing down Gmail even as it struggles to find something about the email. And the incessant complaints about no last names and no companies (over 250 of my contacts don’t have a last name, and that was after I culled about 100 mailing lists out of those) are enough to drive one batty. I’m sure that I’m not the only person that has a certain email on file, so why when somebody else puts in information, why doesn’t that just show up for me? I understand that personal stuff might not want to be shared, but employment, Flickr and other accounts. And then there’s no undo, so if I accidentally click on something (very liable to happen with the slow as fudge javascript), I have to refresh and find out what I did.

OK, just tried Chrome, it’s not really any faster.

 

Delicious down for the count with Yahoo! at least.

Already run Xmarks.  I thought Google Bookmarks had gone like the dodo as well.  I don’t want them tied to a specific browser or machine, and I don’t want to install something that requires I install anything to use it, if I’m at a friends/kids/library.  Because I can’t even guarantee that it will be Windows based.

OK, Google Bookmarks is still around.  But it looks like I need to import everything into Firefox, install the Google Toolbar (yuch), and then import them that way.  And then hopefully don’t strip them away when I do get rid of them in Firefox.  It really doesn’t look Google has done much with GB lately.

Ma.gnolia has entered read-only mode.  Netvous isn’t taking any new users (evidently from 2008, if their blog entry can be believed…)  I’m trying out Diigo.com.  I’ve imported my Delicious, but they evidently are still crunching it, I’m still bookmarkless.  I just found out Furl has become Diigo.  That’s interesting.  Bluedot.us won’t even load right now (the one for the MySpace crowd evidently…)  And those are the ones listed by a four year article about social bookmarking.  The fifth was, duh, Delicious.

Evidently, I have a blinklist account, so I’ve uploaded my links there (although it’s still thinking about it…)  Blogmarks is relaunching, no new users, and I don’t have an account there.  Feedmelinks isn’t even a service anymore it appears, since it redirects to AdExchanger.  Shadows.com is now a linkbait site.  Simpy is a page from Reuters.  Don’t ask, I haven’t a clue.  Spurl (which I had an account at one time I’m sure) isn’t loading.  Jots just says "Hello world". (it’s not even HTML, it’s text).  Wink is now a person search, not a bookmark search.  And the Yahoo!  My Web was shut over two years ago.  Their current offering of bookmarks.yahoo.com is showing a copyright of 2009.  It also has issues importing my Delicious, although do I really expect Yahoo! Bookmarks to stay around as well.  Nope.

I’ve four more via Wikipedia (at least those that load are are what I’m looking for…).  A.nnotate.com.  That one might be a bit too much for what I want.  As it’s name suggests, you can annotate the web page, and it will keep the annotation, the HTML and CSS code.  Bringing a 1TW laser to a knife fight.  Faves appears to be what Bluedot actually is (which might explain why it resolves but doesn’t load, although I think I’d do a redirect, unless they’ve got some nasty bots doing things with the domain, and keeping the domain active means the bots don’t find something else to do…)  Mister Wong, a German site (in English and other languages…).  And Evri. 

And yes, I’m babbling.  I figure others here might find the info worthwhile.  I’d blog it if…  I’ll put this up on my WordPress blog at least.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Mr Jones <@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xmarks, Google Bookmarks, no shortage of services available.
>
> On Dec 16, 2010 5:33 PM, "Bryan Price"
> <@gmail.com<@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> It’s a bookmarking service.  Bookmarks in the cloud you could say.

 

Weird shit in my life

I’ve got an AWACS going over head all the time right now.  Don’t understand what the hell is up with that.

I applied for a position with a real estate management company.  I needed to fill out the online app as soon as possible, and I had to use this code.  So I go through, and the section is supposed to be about my personality.  And then I run into this bit where either I chose to get a free credit report, or I have my own credit report, and although it won’t really be a consideration, it’s a requirement for the job interview.  WTF?

I aborted the online application, and deleted the email requesting that I fill it out.  It sounded like a phising expedition to me.

And now I’ve got a new version of Windows Live Writer to install, but I just had to write this up.

 

Test post

My other blog, http://www.bytehead.org/blog/ is Blogger based.  FTP no less.  And since Google has shut down FTP publishing with Blogger, it’s now off to change to WordPress.

At some point, I’m supposed to be able to get WordPress running with my host.  Much longer, and I’ll just move it somewhere else.  I’m almost done with the conversion.  I need to do one more thing, then export it (on a test blog), and then it will be ready for the real blog.  Oh, and there’s another site I want to go through and make sure I’ve got everything done right.

But since I already have this one, I guess what I want to blog will be going here for now.  And then maybe export and import into the new WordPress blog when it’s done.

Or not.

 

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Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann Delivers One Hell Of a Commentary on Rumsfeld

Keith Oblbermann says: 

That government, like Mr. Rumsfeld’s, had a monopoly on all the facts. It, too, had the secret information. It alone had the true picture of the threat. It too dismissed and insulted its critics in terms like Mr. Rumsfeld’s – questioning their intellect and their morality.

I sure hope that more people would listen to this and may finally realize what this administration is doing to our country. It is not pretty, and it is not going to be pretty to put an end to.

Source: Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann Delivers One Hell Of a Commentary on Rumsfeld

Tags: politics bush rumsfeld Keith+Olbermann transcript fascism

 

First post!

Oh, I forgot. I’m not on /. right now.

I’m trying to figure this WordPress stuff out. Maybe get around to installing it and running it myself. Maybe, one of these days.

I don’t understand what that Path: p is about that I’m seeing, but I guess, I’ll figure out here in a little bit. Interesting. It means that I’m in a <p>.

I’ll have to play with this some more later.

OK, I’ve done away with the WYSIWY(almost)G editting. Nothing like taking the nice little &gt; that you typed and actually having it literally replaced with >. Not good.