It's News to Me

After seeing a link to this video of Bruce Sterling's presentation to Google's Tech Talk on April 30, 2007 on the RSS feed for George Siemens' always-interesting blog elearnspace, I decided to watch the 49+ minute presentation about spimes. It was one of those experiences that I have from time to time that I feel stretches my mind. I'll admit I have no immediate practical use for the knowledge I gained from watching it, but I have no doubt it will make me a better Trivial Pursuit player at some point in the future.

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Yesterday I learned another two-part lesson. I was trying to figure out how to change the stylesheet for one of the blogs that I administer so that it would indent the first line of all the paragraphs in a post.

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This video is courtesy of Lee LeFever. Thanks, Lee.

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This morning I downloaded and installed Thunderbird 2.0, which has just gone gold, and I must tell you this excellent open source email client has gotten even better than it was already.

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Tom Simpson has tagged me as a part of the «Why do I blog?» meme that is circulating in the blogosphere.

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The other day when I was talking about Google Notebook, I mentioned that I searched for help on this new tool but couldn't find any. I don't know whether it has just been added or whether I just discovered it, but now I see it does have a Help section. There is also a Tour that you can take for a good overview of the service.

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My son Mike has frequently called me while driving around and asked that I look up some business on Google and give him the location or the phone number. We've jokingly referred to that as his connecting with «Dear-Old-Dad Central» or «the Mother Ship.» However, now such calls are no longer necessary.

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No, this isn't a religious post; the title just seemed appropriate to the day on which I'm making it. I'm referring to my own resurrection from not posting here recently. I didn't die, and I wasn't buried. I was just off exploring various things on the net and have been a bit remiss in posting my thoughts about them. So this will be something of a catch up post, covering a number of things that I found interesting lately.

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Spend the 10 minutes and 24 seconds it takes to watch this video for an excellent overview of what the issues are surrounding Net Neutrality. (Thanks to Paul Stamatiou for the link to the video.)

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Back in May of last year I decided to relinquish the email account I'd been maintaining for more than 10 years and to rely solely on Gmail as my email server of choice. That choice saved me $21.95 per month that I was foolishly spending with an ISP just to keep that email address alive, and with the freed up money from that, I began spending $6.00 less per month for a web hosting plan with Dreamhost, which hosts this blog and a couple of others and which has enough space for many more projects. It was a wise choice that I should have made much earlier.

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