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Identity

It’s amazing how your identity gets spread thinly across the whole Internet! I’ve just be collating all the web sites that I belong to and all the chat clients that I’m connected to, and it can be a bit overwhelming to keep everything up to date. Does anyone know of some web service to notify all your different sites when you change your address, for example?

Is it possible to have a coherent web identity? In fact, I would probably like three or four different web identities – a public one, a work one and one for friends and family. I guess this is just the nature of the Internet. It is by definition decentralised, and there is no reason for each of your web services to know about the others, let alone communicate and consolidate together. It does seem, however, that interoperability is one of the current pushes in Internet services.

If you’re interested in how to connect with me online, check out the contact page.

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Entertainment

I hope you appreciate the variety of technology and the juxtaposition of new and old, cheap and expensive in my entertainment cabinet!

For gaming I have a SNES from the 80s and an Xbox 360. For watching and recording TV I have a VCR on top of a PC running experimental new social television software (I got rid of the DVD player to save space as the Xbox plays DVDs). And this brand new software is running on a 10-year-old cast-off HP PC…

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posting

jo’s moaning that i don’t post enough, so here i am. i don’t know what she means, i posted less than a week ago! some of us have work to do… honest.

errr…. cheese.

incidentally, we were painting our new spare bedroom (that is, my sister and brother-in law were painting and i was supervising), and we noticed a llama on the wall. they get everywhere, you know. it’s amazing how many llamas we’ve bumped into since moving to woking. must be the beast to be around here. now that the paint has dried, the llama has faded away, sadly, but he’ll always have a place in our hearts.

in geeky news, i’ve nicked an old computer from work and i’ve put linux on it. i’ve always had a vague fascination with linux, and it seems to be good for a web server, so when we get into our new house i think i’ll set it up and put websites on it and stuff. now i have a linux machine for messing about with, a pc for playing games on, and a mac for actually using as a computer. mmm, geeky.

happy now jo? what does “exanimate” mean anyway?

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tedium

so i’ve succumbed to sneaking entries into my fledgling journal at work… the problem is, you work really hard all day, then finish something big at 5.05pm. so, you look at your “to do” list and realise that starting anything else now is a complete waste of time, i mean, there’s only 25 minutes left until hometime and at least the last ten of those need to be used for glancing surreptitously at the clock and making your computer shut down really slowly, and the customers aren’t that nice anyway so why should i rush to get anything done?

so here i am with nothing much to do and a journal to pad out. it’s funny, i never really have anything to write or say, but it doesn’t really matter because nobody really reads it anyway, and it’s just a way of sorting out your brain. and my brain needs a lot of sorting out. not because it’s particularly large, it’s just a mess, like the inside of my pc.

on that note, let’s trigger a “friendly discussion” on macs and pcs. i’m at work, but i’m actually typing this on a remote desktop to my mac at home. why? mainly because i can, i guess. and it looks prettier, and i like checking up on my mac to see if it’s ok. i really want to get a mac at work, but there is absolutely no reason to, because i’d have to run windows on it and you can get a dell to do that at a hundreth of the price. poo. my reason is that it looks prettier and i could use it at home too, but my boss doesn’t really like that reason. i tried to convince him that it would be useful to have a mac in the office for testing software on different platforms, but seeing as we already know there’s absolutely no way our software would work on a mac, that didn’t wash either.

oops, got distracted—someone wanted me to do work! well, i’m now at home with my beautiful wife, so i’d better sign off.