life is messy. when you're in a mess, you know you're living.

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous

got my google wave invite; not sure what's so great about it

It seems sort of cumbersome.  You have to click "reply" and then type in your response, then click "done".  Please.  Why can't it know that I want to respond because I have clicked within the pane?  Also, it is SO browser-based.  It doesn't alert me (via email or text) when a new wave is started - I have to have my browser open.  Maybe there's a setting - nope, just checked - that area is still under construction.  But they have my email address!  I know many people are making up new email addresses for this, but shouldn't there at least be a "email me at this address when a new wave is begun?" option.

I agree with http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/11/so-i-finally-tried-wave.html and http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-wave-algorithm.html - that wave is part of a bigger plan. And maybe embeddable widgets will be the killer app.

Wave - as a beta, yeah, it works okay, but the concept is not up to speed.

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous

browser progress-love how FF remembers the title of the article, not just the URL

sort of a random comment, but it is really awesome when you remember only the article title, but not the URL and you don't want to sift through your entire hugely long browser history

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous

Joke: Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday...

"Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often." - Johnny Carson

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous

cover flow made real - pretty funny http://bit.ly/1ga1e

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous

was told solution to the facebook wingdings problem

if you add "s" after http - so it's https:// and put facebook into secure mode, it displays just fine! chat doesn't work, but i don't really use that anyway, so i don't care.  and sometimes you have to add "s" time and again, but it's worth it to be able to see facebook from my desktop instead of having to go to my laptop.  and contrary to popular belief, i actually HAVE CLIENTS asking my advice about facebook, so it's a good thing to be able to see... :-)

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous

“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.” A.H. Weiler

Writer/critic A.H. Weiler, quoted in the Daytona Beach, Fla., News-Journal

Posted via web from alanacoble's posterous