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Leaving home. Finally.

I live in limbo. I have no home. This apartment starts to feel like a hotel: welcoming, yet not mine.

Everything is now set for moving to the new apartment. Wait. The much older apartment than this one actually, but new to me and Cristina. Feels great. I will save a load of money, and still have an almost as big apartment. Evening sun on the balcony. Great.

I handed in my contract termination to the landlord yesterday. So now I am homeless. All the books are in paper bags on the floor. The furniture is slowly folding up to become flat packages (thank you IKEA). The stuff in the apartment that makes it mine is bit by bit being tucked away, to emerge anew in new surroundings a few weeks from now.

Been reading a lot tonight about blogging, social software, swarms, interesting user experiences based on the growing BlogSphere, Google PageRank problems (never really thought of this problem)... This means something. Blogging is not a geek thing performed by tech nerds, it is more like the most accessible and fastest way of expressing thoughts and feelings we have seen ever. We have yet to see what it turns out to be.

Google bought Pyra. Nuff said. What will they do with the Blogger space of articles, surfers, links, tracks and so on? Exciting stuff. I am almost starting to feel as fascinated by this as when I first encountered email and realised the communication revolution that would come as computers and Internet would be available to all and anyone. Too bad it will be killed by spam. ;)

I really need to check out sites like Blogdex and Technorati. Must figure out what they do and why they do it. I haven't really grokked that part yet.

Idea: I wonder if I could use a separate Movable Type blog and category system to create my long desired omni-present, easily updated, searchable index of interesting links. This system could probably supply me with everything I need in a simple manner. Even storing full articles about every link, adding comments to them, keeping track of the date I stored it... ...even a ready-made way of storing a link directly form the interface of the IE browser. Must think about that. Sounds like it could work great.

This night's thank you goes out to Mulleskolan. ;)

Posted by manne at May 8, 2003 11:46 PM | TrackBack

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