psyche

Internet Explorer won’t display the nonstandard character’s on Psyche’s front page and has a messed up Japanese font, Leopard is a service pack and my MacBook Pro can cook things. On the other hand, m35 of jpsx and the people in #lain are working on ripping the videos from the Lain game with sound. What an active community we are… (note the absence of my Unicode ellipsis - I miss OS X already).

I am planning a much, much better incarnation of Psyche. 2.7 will be a landmark version!

I’m running Leopard now and I like it. I plan to dual boot with Debian to familiarise myself with the console before I take the plunge into building a robot to replace me (…that was just a joke + look! Unicode ellipsis!). Getting into the spirit of these saved searches (which I never really embraced in Tiger), I’m tagging my browsers as “browser” etc. I want to be able to type “browser” into Spotlight and be able to quickly choose whichever one. There’s probably a better solution (using a stack? Actually using the Desktop for aliases?) but I like metadata…

Pax

In light of this talk and obviously in reaction to WordPress’s recent adoption of tags, I really want to use them as more-specific categories. However, it’s simply unfeasible for me to go through every post. There must be some kind of software solution! While a computer may not know I’m talking about JavaScript when I mention my Tiberian Sun Tactical Calculator, it could at least scan my blog for commonly-occurring words or phrases that aren’t too common (not “and” or “not” or “the” or “I am feeling” etc.) and auto-tag?

To make that more effective, it could take into account the tags and categories I’ve specified - as well as those that others have specified across the blogosphere. It sounds useful and shouldn’t be that hard - should it? I suppose it’s again a question of practicality on a large scale… maybe Google or someone should do this.

How about a neat statistical thing of which words I use the most, and when I click on a word it shows the most common words that accompany it? That would be cool.

Pax

I went to a talk by Thomas Vander Wal at school today (it was organised, I believe, by Mr Smith. It was very interesting. Social software, to use the phrase of the day, is continuously evolving and binding us to the network, wherein we are all connected. As Mr Vander Wal noted, communication is the key to our success - even as a species. Collaboration and massive data retention ability are what defines us as a civilisation. We are continuously getting better at it.

I dream of this. Then, this.

Pax