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Microblogging

by ian
Categories: IT, Linux
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Published on: August 27, 2008

I was recently introduced to the concept of microblogging from an awesome linux podcast.  Thank you Dan and Fab from Linux Outlaws.  I started last week at a site call Jaiku.  Late last week they went down with some server issues and have still not come back.  I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in that service anymore.  Granted I only used it for a couple of days.

So you might be wondering what microblogging is.  It is kind of a weird concept.  It is a cross between email and Instant Messaging.  You make short entries about anything.  What you are doing or thinking, or whatever.  So people can subscribe to your posts and see what you are up to.  It’s kinda cool. There are times that I don’t want to write an entire blog post but want to rant about something or post something small that is going on that I want to share.

On Monday in that same podcast, they interviewed the founder of a different service called identi.ca.  I started using that yesterday.  My profile is identi.ca/discostu.  I also installed the server software on my own site.  I’ll probably be using that one primarily now.  It is open source software so I will probably attempt to make some changes and improve the service.  Sign up if you are interested.  micro.notsopc.com

Email Ettiquette

by ian
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Published on: August 20, 2008

Warning:  Some people may find this post offensive.  Oh well.

I am very particular about a few things.  Email happens to be one that I am a bit more vocal about, well at least vocal to Kevin at work.  I gripe to him about things that people do when composing e-mail messages.  I’m sure he’s sick of it.  Anyway here are a couple of things that really get my goat.

1. Subject lines – The subject line is just that, the subject.  It should contain a very general synopsis of the content of the e-mail.  It should be short and to the point.  It should NOT be blank.  It should NOT be the first line of the the body of the message unless that first line is also included in the body.  For example:

To: foo@bar.com

Subject: It is time…

Body: to go to work.

I don’t want to have to re-read the subject to figure out the first part of the sentence and no one else should either.

2. Post Scripts.  Adding a P.S. to the end of an e-mail message is ridiculous.  From my understanding the Post Script was when you finished writing a letter or some other correspondence and you remembered something you forgot to put in the main body.  You would write P.S. at the bottom and write your thought.  If you are composing an e-mail you can obviously just move the little cursor back to the main body and add the thought there.

There you go.

Speaking Assignment

by ian
Categories: IT, Religion
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Published on: August 10, 2008

I was approached today in church by one of the Stake High Councilors.  He asked me to be his companion next week in one of the Moscow wards.  I’m not a huge fan of speaking in any ward.  Anyway, my topic is Uplifting Media.  He asked if I would cover Internet and computer media specifically.  I guess I have some expertise in that area but I still don’t know exactly what I want to say.

I think I want to focus on the uplifting side of it since the focus in General Conference is usually on the evils of the internet.  Not that I will avoid that completely but I think a lot of people are scared of the technology and expect to be bombarded with pornography the instant they open a web browser.

An example of this is, this last week an elderly woman in the Ward called me to see if I could setup her internet and and new computer.  She’s been asking me for a few weeks but things have been pretty hectic lately with the play and such.  Anyway, she called and I thought I better just go and do it.  So I went and got her all connected.  Her first question when I was done was.  “This will block all the pornography, right?”  I politely told her that it would not and that you would typically buy some other software if you wanted to do that.  She was mostly concerned about her teenage granddaughter.  I told her to just not let her use the computer alone.  I also showed her Google and let her know that they do a pretty good job of filtering results so you don’t accidentally find things you shouldn’t.

I wouldn’t mind any other ideas you might have that I might bring up.

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