peccavi
I may have mentioned this before but it’s worth a repeat - actually, no - nothing is worth a repeat but I can’t be bothered searching to see if I’ve said it before, so there. The peccavi pun. Punnery in a furrin langwidge. Those be the best sort.
But in other, mostly mundane news - I have caved and gotten myself a real (for certain values of reality) Facebook account. I’ve already discovered a slightly closer degree of separation to folk than I feel really comfortable with and the same basic problem with all social networking sites resurfaces. Umm, specifically - WTF does one actually do on Facebook? Ok, stalking random folk - I get that. Ogling pictures uploaded by people with a tenuous grasp of the concept privacy settings - I get that too. But thereafter? Um. Don’t geddit.
I’m trying out a new writing schedule which means I’m not online much. It also means that my score on Desktop TD keeps improving but my wordcount isn’t climbing as fast. Regrettable state of affairs, that. And thus - in lieu of real content (No one really wants to hear my ramblings on linguistics, do they?), a few links will have to do, I’m afraid.
GMail Greasemonkey scripts - compiled into one extension. Clearly, if you spend your time hanging about del.icio or digg or some place like that, you’re probably cursing me already for perpetuating this link. Awww. Anyway, some of the scripts are irritating, others less so. Can’t really say I use Gmail features enough to justify installation, but what the heck.
And in one of the most surreal pieces of lunacy yet, head for Australia and be settled in America instead. No, really. This is supposed to be a deterrent, apparently.
On 18-Apr-07 at 9:03 pm,
Darwin wrote:
I like Facebook because it’s a stalker-free one-stop shop for keeping in touch with people I have forgotten to reply via email/text/phone-calls. Also, the layout is CLEAN unlike the epilepsy inducing pimped up myspace/hi5 type friend network sites.
On 19-Apr-07 at 1:27 am,
Grenadine wrote:
’stalker-free’?
Noooooooooo..
On 19-Apr-07 at 7:26 am,
ddm wrote:
hehe it kind of regulates stalkers..as in if they (you)
want to stalk you (them), they (you) have to add
you (them). you them them you you you them them.
On 19-Apr-07 at 9:14 am,
Darwin wrote:
Yeah that’s what I meant. REGULATED stalking:D
On 19-Apr-07 at 9:29 am,
drac wrote:
you’re forgetting the whole “oops. I forgot my privacy settings”..
specifically “my entire life history, address, underwear sizes and preferences are visible to my network”. Not much regulation needed there to go into a stalker feeding frenzy
Just sayin’ is all.
On 19-Apr-07 at 9:51 am,
ddm wrote:
so don’t join the sri lanka network
all the stalkers live there (here). heh.
On 19-Apr-07 at 10:03 am,
drac wrote:
Oooh. not so sure about that. Some uh.. fairly successful stalkers *wink* seem to manage quite well without membership in that particular network.
My throwaway FB nick, for example.. before I caved in and got a real one.
On 19-Apr-07 at 10:05 am,
Gluehwine wrote:
I, for one, call for MOAR stalker inclusivity. And “oops. I forgot my privacy settings” is a good start.
On 20-Apr-07 at 8:08 pm,
rastiadu karaya wrote:
I’m still reeling over the fact that you’ve got facebook. What next? A myspace profile?
On 26-Apr-07 at 12:57 am,
sloth wrote:
Dude, I added you.
On 22-Jun-07 at 5:25 pm,
The Lair / met online? wrote:
[...] been lurking around Facebook again. The fancy seems to strike me in fits and starts. I resisted for as long as I could but I am now gripped in the throes of addiction. Well, I still don’t know what people [...]