Χτες έγραψα για μια στοίβα από παλιά αλληλογραφία.

Όλο αυτό φυσικά δεν ήταν ξεκάρφωτα Τις προάλλες και άλλοι στο Ελληνικό Καφενείο έχουν αρχίσει να αναρωτιούνται τι απέγινε ο τάδε και ο τάδε από τις παλιές καλές μέρες του Yahoo Chat πριν δέκα χρόνια.

Λες να είναι επειδή έχουν περάσει δέκα χρόνια και τα ρολογάκια μέσα μας να έχουν αρχίσει να χτυπάνε; Πολλές φιλίες, ελληνικές και μη, άρχισαν πριν δέκα χρόνια σε yahoo chat, κατά την φάση του web 1.0. Με μερικούς έχω κρατήσει επαφές, και με άλλους όχι και τόσο.

Αυτοί που είναι εντός τεχνολογικών κύκλων έχουν επαφή μαζί μου, οι άλλοι όχι και τόσο επειδή ποτέ δεν είχα χρόνο (από τότε που άρχισα πανεπιστήμιο ) να κάθομαι να γράφω μεγάλα γράμματα

Τέλος πάντων, τελικός και εγώ αναρωτιέμαι που βρίσκονται όλες αυτές οι γνωριμίες από το web 1.0 με τις οποίες έχω χάσει επαφή. Αν διαβάζετε το μπλόγκ, ρίξτε κανένα email ή βρείτε με στο φέιςμπουκ.

Tags: yahoo, old school, chat

Recently I was going through old correspondence that I had saved, you know, the old school type. The one that is handwritten, stamped and mailed. The one that you waited for a week or so to show up to its destination. Yeah, that one.

In any case, along with handwritten letters, I also found out printouts of my first internet friendships and it struck me as intriguing that it's been ten year since I've known some of these individuals. People that were once random connections in a chat room, talking about soccer, or how college compared between the US and their country, are now acquaintances or good friends.

With some people I've stayed in touch, I've found on Facebook or some other social network, and with others I've completely lost touch. Just like physical addresses, people move out of an email or an IM username and then they become incognito.

It's interesting to look back, even as recent as ten years ago, and see what's happened to acquaintances and relationships. Today's youth probably won't know what it means to be to lose touch given that they friend everyone they know on Facebook (and Facebook-like services). I guess for them losing touch won't mean not knowing anything about their former acquaintances... This is interesting to think about...

Tags: memento, letters

This is pretty interesting. I saw the terminator season finale last week and I was quite amazed. On the one hand the series can end now and it will not be a major cliffhanger.

Sure we don't know where John Henry went with Cameron's chip and John was been transported to the future where no one seems to know who he is but I see this as a setup for a sequel series or a series of movies (or comic books as has been eluded by some entertainment blogs).

I would like for the series to continue though so we can find out what's going on...

• Who is the weaverbot and why is she fighting skynet?
• Did Miles Dyson's son actually create Skynet? (was he in Terminator 3?)
• Where is John Henry?
• What are Elisson and Sarah going to do now?
• What are the dynamics that thrust John to be in a leadership position now that we know that he did not survive J-day (like terminator 3 says), but skipped it altogether?
• Will we see Arnold? (I hope so!)
• Will we see the original Cromartie? (I hope so!)
• What's the deal with the human Cameron?

The one thing that people are complaining about is that the series is now disjointed, there is no straight line to follow. Well, if you change something in the past, the future changes! If the future changes, the present will seem a little more chaotic, no?

I am hoping for a renewal!

Tags: television, entertainment, terminator, opinion

(ή αλλιώς Backup FAIL)

Όπως γνωρίζεται το Pownce, μια υπηρεσία microblogging έκλεισε τον περασμένο Δεκέμβρη. Ως υπηρεσία ήταν αρκετά μικρή σε ηλικία, μόνο ενάμιση χρόνο ζωής πριν την κλείσουν.

Τέλος πάντων, όπως και να έχει το θέμα, είχα λογαριασμό και έκανα backup τις καταχωρίσεις μου. Το Pownce είχε μερικά themes που μου άρεσαν, και ένα από αυτά ήταν αυτό που είχα επιλέξει για το προφίλ μου. Έτσι λοιπόν έκανα μια αποθήκευσή της σελίδας μου με αρχείο webarchive στο Safari για να σώσω τις εικόνες και το CSS. Έκανα το ίδιο και με άλλα themes που εν περιπτώσει που ήθελα να τα χρησιμοποιήσω στο μέλλον όταν το Pownce δεν ήταν πια «μαζί μας».

Τις προάλλες λοιπόν πάω στα webarchive και τι βλέπω; Βλέπω σελίδες με ερωτηματικά εκεί που ήταν εικόνες και δεν υπάρχει κανένα background image. Κερατά! Ψάχνω στο goolge για τις εικόνες και τίποτα! Τι σπάσιμο!

Μετά από αρκετή ώρα κοίταξα ένα φάκελο με εικόνες που σώζω από το ίντερνετ και τι βρήκα; Βρήκα μια εικόνα από ένα από τα themes που ήθελα! Τα webarchive με άφησαν απογοητευμένο αλλά το ένστικτό μου να σώσω την εικόνα από μόνη της με έβγαλε ασπροπρόσωπο!

Tags: safari, webarchive, backup, FAIL

...or octapus in Greek.

This is an awesome little animation

Tags: animated, youtube, video

I saw this image on the FAIL blog a week ago and I thought I should share it with you.

It reminds me of a story a friend once told me of his/her actions while drunk thinking that he/she was a merman/mermaid
(articles are intentionally both male and female to protect the identity of the friend)

Tags: FAIL, friends, stories, humor

I was reading an article on Engadget a while back that said that the Sony MYLO is only available in refurbished form. I am wondering is Sony is going to just axe the line, or if they are going to really put some umph behind it, rework the OS, make it more developer friendly and add GSM/HSPA in it!


There is certainly precedent for this. Nokia is taking their Internet Tablet and it adding cell radios in them and reworking their capabilities. Microsoft is working on their SidekickOS now, and Apple is moving a step closer to the internet tablet model. Not to mention that things don't seem to be honkey dorey with Sony and Ericsson's partnership!


So does this mean the emergence of the PSP phone? Might be!!!!

Tags: technology, sony, mylo, Phones

I love old formats, but unfortunately data rot does set in

I guess I am an archivist at heart

CD's are only reliable up to 5 years? I guess I need to get some external Hard Drives!



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Tags: technology, media, preservation

Well, do you flutter?

Tags: technology, humor, video

Well, a week or so ago Apple had their special event (sans-steve) to announce iPhone 3.0 OS. The good news is that this software release bring the iPhone up to speed, where it should have been on launch day!

Yes, some of these features like copy/paste, MMS, and push notifications have been asked for by the community, but others like GPS, peer-to-peer connectivity landscape keyboard and voice-memos seem like a "d'uh" to me.

So the good news is that we are now where we should have been to begin with (with the exception of full bluetooth, but anyway). Some people may bemoan that fact that as a platform the iPhone is behind other platforms. I personally don't think so - and that's the other set of good news.

Windows Mobile is aging. It's going to be a while before Windows Mobile 7 comes out to blow us all away.

WebOS and the Palm Pre are still being developed, nothing is on the market yet.

Blackberry is trying to figure out where it's going on the consumer front. Applications aren't completely there, and the Storm is a bit of a flop

The Symbian foundation has yet to launch their OS, and Nokia is trying to figure out S60 Touch.

Microsoft with Sidekick...well, I am not sure where that's going (I am wishing for some interesting developments though).

So that leaves us with a level playing field. Right now it's a mad dash to the next big thing with integrated mobile chat and unified messengers, and integration with the could (see the iphone blog link).

Keep your eyes peeled, this should be an interesting race to watch.




For more commentary, if you haven't seen it yet:

TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/17/iphone-3-0-feature-roundup/
The iPhone Blog: http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/03/17/iphone-os-30/

Tags: technology, apple, iPhone

at&t announced this week that they will be selling contract free iPhones,s o people can pay full fare ($700 for a 16GB iPhone) to get it without a two year commitment.

Seriously though, what's the point? You can't unlock it for use with other carriers and you still have to pay at&t the mandatory $30/month for data. The reasons to buy an iPhone SIM-free (or contract-free) are essentially nullified.

Way to make something out of nothing

Tags: technology, apple, att

Well, Nokia decided to pull the plug on MOSH. I can't say I blame them, the name was kinda silly to begin with (Mobilize and Share?! Seriously?) and from all reports it was littered with pr0n and w@rez.

I have a MOSH account but I got it to mostly check things out. There were a number of interesting games on there, free, but I guess they were warez and I didn't really catch on to that fact.

I think that with Ovi being launched, it provides Nokia with a better environment to not only provide new services, but also encapsulate the youtube/flickr/box.net aspect of MOSH into Ovi into one unified service.

Tags: technology, defunct

Well, another venerable web 2.0 service has bitten the dust.

I got an email this week that furl is being absorbed by diigo.

Honestly I didn't use furl that often. I signed up to test it out and then decided to go with delicious instead.

Oh well...

Tags: technology, defunct