Withdrawal Symptoms

On Friday I returned back home from being away at my grandfather’s. He has no internet connection (yes, I have tried to persuade him to get one!). Being away from the internet for a long time can be troublesome. Though I did not miss it while I was away, the amount of “stuff to catch up on” was out of control - especially in my RSS reader.

Even though, I am happy to say, I try to keep my feed subscriptions down. I still had nearly five-hundred unread items. So I tried something new, I scanned through all the items looking for interesting titles and flagged any that caught my eye. Once I’d been through a folder I marked all as read and moved on.

I’m thinking of doing something similar on a day to day basis. By doing this I can tighten up on the content that I look at and stay ore focused.

Similarly, though for a far longer period of time, Shawn Blanc has also been away. He has posted a few items that caught his eye while he has been away - I think it’s a good idea; so I thought I would do something similar.

Flickr now does video: Only for 90 seconds and for pro members. It seems the Flickr community is up in arms about this. The best description of Flickr video I can find is by Michael Mistretta.

It will not become a place for video shows or music videos. Instead, it will become a place that, much like twitter, where you are free to express yourself and what you are doing visually. Before, you could only do this through photos. Now, you have photos and video.
Engadget has had a redesign: There is now a lot more space for the actual content which I like - it was a long time coming.
Leo Laporte is still having a great time in Tasmania: he has done a great video of the kit he used and some of his photos are breathtaking.
Final Cut Sever was released: they are only what? Only over half a year late.
Office Stress Get a Mac ad: I’m kind of getting board of these, I think Apple can do better.