Posts Tagged ‘Browsing’

Experimentation

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

A change is as good as a rest, or so they say. Well this week I’ve been making quite a few changes.

It started off with a post from Jorge about integrating Launchpad with GNOME Do. I’d been aware of GNOME Do for a while, but never got around to trying it. Well now I have, and I love it. I do have to keep reminding myself it’s there, but I’m getting used to it.

A quick side note – PPAs rock. Major props to Celso, Julian and Kiko for making them part of Launchpad. They make obtaining packages for new projects so much easier.

I can’t remember what prompted me to try it, but I’m now using the Avant Window Manager (also known as AWN). This combined with GNOME Do lets me have a minimalist desktop.

Following a discussion about Flock I’m now trying that out again (see here and here for my previous experiences with it). I’ll post some updated opinions in a few days, but at the moment I’m ambivalent. As always when playing with a new toy, this post has been written with Flock.

Finally I’m back on Jaiku again thanks to Jaiku Invites. I’m not quite sure why when I’m getting increasingly bored with social networks, but we’ll see what happens.

Another side note – my machine hung completely while I was originally writing this post. After the reboot both Firefox and Flock restored their sessions as I have become used to. I was also pleased to the see that Flock restored this post.

Blogged with Flock

Socially Ostracized?

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

I stumbled across nugget of wisdom earlier today:

For many web workers, there’s email, and then there’s Gmail. You can use a different email client, but prepare to be mildly teased/socially ostracized

What?!? Are they serious?

Futzers of the world unite!

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Hi. My name’s Dave and I’m a Futzer.

Compulsive browsing – or as I prefer to it, learning – has a new name: Futzing (which I discovered via Web Worker Daily. Defined by Tara Hunt as:

the process by which one wanders around without aim, having conversations (with new and old friends), gathering random information, learning ostensibly useless knowledge and avoiding all tasks/duties clear and present.

Of course the only other definition I can find is:

a sound as if it is coming over the telephone or radio

…so I’m happy to accept Tara’s one.

I’ve been futzing for years. I use the internet to constantly learn, although I don’t always realise the value of that learning until later on. Invariably though, what I have learnt always comes in useful.