i just learned that charlie had hooked me up with a complimentary pass for day one of bloggerCon which was yesterday. i had not known about it, so i did not attend. damn!!
at least, i am here now, after the usual public transport ordeal. i really need to learn how to drive.
Month: October 2003
Pioneers
i ran into ed cone and lance knobel last night.
i talked with ed about tara sue, and how she was the pioneer for political weblogs. mentioned that something interesting may soon happen with political weblogs in switzerland. lance used to run the davos meetings of the WEF, and has had a weblog for years. in years past, he used to provide very good inside coverage, something that is now sorely missed. he made me aware of some MP in the UK that really understand political weblogs, and consequently write them themselves.
memor{y, ies} for life
i’m in some ways, prone to the keep everything disease. while i do not care at all about physical stuff, and like to have my belongings fit nicely into a carry-on, i tend to hang on to digital creations and traces. it may be part of the rebuilding your existence meme. i am left today with the task of merging backups of 3 different machines i used to work on. fortunately, i adopted a fairly strict hierarchy for storage:
- work
- private
- misc
- study
with appropriate subdirectories. i have this hierarchy for imap, filesystem, bookmarks, my images, and plan to extend it to various log files in the future, like IM logs or browser histories. what would really help me is a diff tool that works across directories and lets me know where to put things. i know about the various synchronization features windows has, but they only work if you set them up beforehand from what i understand. ideally, at some point, my data will all sit somewhere in the cloud, and i can access it from any device without having to worry about synchronization.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 