When I’m browsing around the Internet and I find things that interest me, it’s not uncommon for me to bookmark them (either locally or to del.icio.us) or to email them to myself. I send newsgroup posts to my email alot if I want to followup on them outside of the newsgroup thread – visit a website, contact someone, etc. I guess the main reason I do that is it’s easier to track in my email – once a message is marked as read, it’s not always as easy to find in a discussion. So I mail them to me and move on.

And then I hear the new mail noise and I excitedly go check my inbox. (Face it, if I’m reading newsgroups I’m looking for the “mental escape” or “smokebreak.”) Then I’m disappointed when it’s just an email from me. That I sent 30 seconds ago. And immediately forgot doing.

And I do this all the time. I must be handicapped.

More to come soon – been very busy with work. I’ve turned off trackbacks on the site because I’m tired of the spam. Must look into upgrading to WP1.5 soon and see if its tools are better.

PS. Bill Self’s recruiting class is doing excellent for us – undefeated with twenty-seven wins. I wonder if he ever regrets leaving….

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
– John C. Dvorak

I wonder if John knew anything about backups?

Just to check, the only good thing about XP’s Control Panel category view is that it’s pretty and doesn’t look cluttered. Has anyone actually done anything functional through it (besides switching immediately to Classic View?)

I didn’t think so.

Ask Jeeves to buy Bloglines | CNET News.com

One last linkblog for the night. I finally imported all of my feeds (blogroll, if you will) from Trillian into Bloglines. Then this article pops up. I’m transitioning to a different RSS reader because I’m planning on upgrading to Trillian 3 on the new laptop, and if I want to keep using the News part of it, I need to pay another $25. I’m going to investigate Trillian 3 and possibly buy it anyway, but I figured I would give a ’server-based’ web aggragator a chance.

I guess Ask Jeeves is too. Social network mapping is interesting.

USATODAY.com – Scientists decide to abandon the aging Hubble Space Telescope project

Sucks. I think we could learn more by launching three more Hubbles than a few visits to the Moon and Mars. I’ve complained before (re: the Concorde amongst other things) about how it’s not having the best technology, it’s doing something newer and flashier. It’s sad to see that level of interest being put into the Hubble.

But, I also understand with everything else going on in the world, NASA spending should be kept in check. We have too many problems on Earth to worry about taking them to other planets — although it would be nice to look at other planets.

/me is disappointed.