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i went and bought wot.is
In celebration of the ongoing ash cloud menacing europe, and also because I can’t control my geeky impulses, I bought an icelandic domain name. Pretty cool, huh? Predictably, I can’t think of anything terribly useful to do with it, so I’ve loaded YOURLS onto it and am using it as a custom URL shortening service.
Fancy! Feel free to point out what a sad geek I am.
haven’t quite figured out how to catch a wave
I’ve now had a Google Wave account for about the past 2 weeks. Yet, despite having several of my friends on my contacts list, I haven’ t yet figured out a way to employ it that’s useful. So far, I’m pretty sure I’ve had the standard Wave beginner’s journey: Log in, update status, read through the welcome waves…
Chat with someone just like you would with Google Talk (but with live updating typing, ooer!). Send a wave to someone who’s not online right now, just like you would with Gmail. Play with editing someone else’s conversation, throw a voting gadget in, make fonts and colours all pretty and such.
I’ve had all these excited conversations with people about how revolutionary this thing is and yet despite my intense nerdiness haven’t really managed to get anything much to fruition. My inbox languishes empty, and I scuttle my way back to Gmail again. Have you done anything cool with Wave yet? Has it made some kind of communication much easier for you?
(… I’ll pre-empt many people’s first reaction by letting you know I haven’t been graced with any invites to give out yet.)
it’s a wee mixer! whee!
Ain’t it cute! I’m waiting with bated breath for the arrival of my next toy – that Denon mixer over there. I’m mildly concerned though – the sound card I had shipped last week was via USPS Express International which was tracked from the moment the seller logged the item for shipment online. This time, it’s coming via USPS Priority Mail International which has markedly mixed reports around the internet.
So I think it was sent last Tuesday – and I do have a tracking number. The concerning bit is just that it’s been nearly a week now and USPS track & confirm still says “There is no record of this item.”
I hope it’s en route and it’s just that some slackers haven’t bothered to scan it. I want toys, dammit! Ah well, time will tell.
Update: So it, uh, hadn’t actually been shipped yet. That would be why there was no record of it. And here I was getting all excited it would arrive soon! I blame independence day.
shitty days and new toys
God damn I had an arse day yesterday. 8 or so hours of slightly incoherent, fragmented teaching on 5 hours of sleep. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing worse than trying to teach a class when feeling confused and tired.
On the plus side, I bought the delightful Edirol FA-66 firewire soundcard you see to your right over the weekend. Now I just have to wait for it to be shipped. Toys! Oh and I bought a new wardrobe, but that’s far less exciting.
Edit: Okay, there are worse things. But it’s still pretty bad.