Have you tried Writely? It’s google’s free word processor that is an online application, ie one that you don’t download. You can write and edit documents of various formats with it, and then you have a choice of saving to Google’s servers or to your hard drive (there’s an auto-save naturally too). You can post entries to your blog with it, as I’m doing now. You can collaborate with others on documents. Why do you need an online word processor when computers today all come with applications like word processors pre-loaded? You don’t. But now Dell/HP/Gateway etc. might give you a choice to buy a computer without applications like this, at a discount. Just a thought. BTW if anyone wants a gmail address, tell me.
Category: media
virtuosity can be fun
This video has been played 8.2 million times on YouTube. It’s amazing, but the dissemination method smells like tomorrow, maybe even yesterday.
Here’s the NYT writeup, if you have time for background: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?ex=1314331200&en=b993c2e50a7b705d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
My head exploded at 3:40-3:50, then he changed keys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
dreams, memories, google
My friend sent a link to a video taken by who knows who, showing the Tsunami of 2004 destroying a hotel in which we stayed in 2003 on Koh Phi Phi in Thailand. ‘We woulda been goners!’ he said.
That which was formerly visible to us only from vantage points in dreams… incidents on the scale of myth: ‘One day out of the west a wall of water higher than the palm trees will come to our island, and almost no one will survive.’
Search/find is easier than digging matching purple socks out of a drawer.
Related note, from an old notebook, a different pre-tsunami trip with Dian:
“Miss Lee on Koh Phi Phi sells us boat tickets to Krabi. To Dian she says:
‘Oh you live on Bali- I would love to go there! But I’m afraid.’
Dian: ‘Of what?’
Miss Lee(not wanting to mention the then-recent bombings, as though Dian would be offended):
‘Of everything!’ ”