This is kind of a cool colour theme, huh? I like the one on the boring main page too. It's only boring because it lacks useful content. I don't know why I'm so damn eager to blog, except that if I don't write stuff down... good luck remembering it! :P
Maybe I need a 12-step program to de-blogify?
What a way to wake up - server's down and appears to have some major file system issues. Essentially it's trashed. Which is fine, it has served (no pun intended) us well.
You don't realize how much you rely on email until you have no access to your messages. And since it's an IMAP server and not a POP3 one, it stores my email on the server, not on my hard drive. Meaning... I have no access to my old email either (except for stuff I've received at my gmail addresses, google rocks my socks). Which isn't good at all, since my schedule for the next week is there. At least, I hope it's still there.
"Rocks my socks"...? Where the hell did that come from? It's been on the tip of my tongue a lot lately and it's not because anyone I know says it (at least, not that I've consciously noticed). I do have a tendency to absorb other people's turns of phrase, though, so maybe I subconsciously soaked it up?
It's like music. I'll find myself humming a song, that I don't actually remember hearing recently - but if I really sit down and think, maybe it was playing on the radio in the accounting department, or possibly the muzack in the grocery store (although that I tune out pretty darn effectively). Music just sort of floats in, frequently as background noise, and I'm halfway through the song, just sort of idly tapping my toes when I realize... "HEY! This is Richard Marx! EW!"
Pretty cool about Anshe being on the cover of Business Week, huh? I've been reading the O'Reilly Radar comments on it. And on the whole Web 2.0 thang. I have much more sympathy with the Lindens for server downtime right now. :/
I can't decide if it'd be really cool, or incredibly awful to work for Linden Labs - I keep thinking it'd be a fun job, but then I wonder if maybe it's better to keep Second Life strictly a recreational activity. One of those "if they pay you it's not fun anymore; it's work" things. On the other hand, what if working for them sucked? What if it was all horrible office politics and sucked all the joy right out of being online? And when you eventually move on to a new job, would you still enjoy SL?
Hey, Google user-interface team? Can we do something about my inability to backspace when using the handy little "enter a URL" pop up window? And the lack of tabbing between fields? Please?
The Lindens are looking for a "Usability Expert", according to the website. I hope they hire another resident for that job - someone who is an expert because they know the client and the environment, and not because they wrote their master's thesis on Ergonomics and Video Games or something. Because approaching the UI for SL as a video game would be Wrong. With a capital W. Not to mention that it'll get you tarred and feathered in some social groups.
I'd apply, but the only way I'd qualify as an "Expert" is if (a) they count the fact that I regularly use the client (daily), and (b) at least half of the other one million residents came down with the stomach flu.
So, are you feeling queasy yet?