In spite of the threats of the horrible flu going around this winter and various other illnesses spreading, I’d managed to stay mostly healthy all through Christmas and New Years. But yesterday, it finally caught up with me, and I started feeling cruddy. I guess some bug has finally caught up with me, and it feels like I’m going to be spending the next couple days with a stuffed head and aching body. Hopefully that’s all it’ll be, but if the linkage is less, you’ll know why. And if the linkage is heavier than usual, it means I’m feeling well enough to lay on the couch with the laptop and surf the web a bit. I’m not sure which way this will go yet.
And as for the busy week I said I was facing yesterday morning? Well, some things just aren’t going to get done as soon as I’d hoped. I’ll worry about the details when I’m feeling better.
- In Manila, you’re apparently supposed to ask Honey, Feel Like Saving a Little Water? and see if you can bathe with your sweetie in order to conserve water. Funny, whenever I’ve asked that question, I’ve usually gotten either laughed at or an exasperated look.
- Are you quirkyalone? is a quiz to see whether you should even think about trying to find someone for February 14th, or just get ready to sit home. Me? I’m apparently
Very quirkyalone
:
Yeah. That’s it. I’m romancing the world!Relatives may give you quizzical looks, and so may friends, but you know in your heart of hearts that you are following your inner voice. Though you may not be romancing a single person, you are romancing the world.
- Many-to-Many: SocialGrid: Much, much crazier than I thought looks at solving dating. There’s some very strange stuff there but it looks like they’re basically trying to help you find your soulmate using google. [boing boing]
- I’ve heard people griping about Friendster and Tribe asking what use they are. I didn’t have a real good answer until last night, when I realized that both of them are approximations to the web of trust that PGP depended on, except for people who aren’t necessarily geeky enough to have a PGP key. Now they’re still not all inclusive, but by offering various benefits (friendster purports to help you find that special someone among the friends of your friends, tribe is more business-oriented), each of them draws a different crowd. While I wouldn’t necessarily want information shared among the various webs (including PGP key signing), I can see how useful it would be if the information were shared.
And that brings me to another idea. A friend on a mailing list was asking how he could get his parents the computer help they need. He’s plenty savvy technically, but his parents drive him nuts. Another friend mentioned that there should be some kind of network of professionals to help each other’s parents out (since trying to help your own parents can lead to frustration and insanity). I don’t think it’s the killer app for social-networking websites, but maybe it’s a step closer and someone who reads this will get inspired to make the killer app. - Then I got to thinking,
Hey, isn’t that what money is supposed to be all about?
Well, yeah, I think it is. The problem there is that monetary transactions now have too much friction due to taxation, government regulation, and middlemen in the way. - I decided (while thinking about the social networking stuff) to check the Technorati Link Cosmos for Dave’s Picks again. There’s another network that might be useful. Or a source for some pages obviously written by people with excellent taste.