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I am, of course, a hopeless neophile. I believe it's the only correct orientation toward the future, especially the future as it looks from here. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Ed says that OPML isn't caught by Spotlight on OS X. Hmm, I know how to make Spotlight plugins. I should add that to my Maybe Do list. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It'll take me awhile to get down to that Maybe Do list, though, since I've got book chapter deadlines as a steady drumbeat on through until mid-March that leave me just a sliver of time for side-hacking in the meantime. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Also, Ed: If you're still having trouble assigning links to blogroll items, I'm wondering if you've tried right-clicking / control-clicking on an outline node triangle? There should be a context menu offering "Add Link..." as an option. That'll spawn a dialog you can use to add or modify a URL associated with an outline node. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

By the way, is anyone else back to using the Instant Outliner these days? My IO is here. Apologies in advance though: I'm still trying to work out quite what to use it for, or if the stuff there really belongs somewhere else. I used to have an IO a few years ago, but drifted away from the habit. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Got myself a new cellphone Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Whenever I get a new gadget, no matter how low-powered, I try to wrap my brain around it in a very real sense. I try to explore the features and see how useful they can be as things I habitually reach for in the course of thought. So, I've been having fun lately with a new LG PM-225 cameraphone from Sprint. It's certainly no mega-nifty smartphone, but it's a hell of a step up from my trusty old Samsung A500. A few initial thoughts:

 It's nice having a cameraphone, period, as well as having a much more capable web browser and SMS messaging built right into the phone (as opposed of accessible from web forms).

 I've installed Opera Mini, and started playing around with a mobile reading list of feeds using some code from my first book.

 It's been nice to skim some feeds and email myself links to items I'd like to read on a larger screen - which the built-in OpenWave browser does, but not Opera Mini.

 I've played just a bit with setting up some procmail filters to route email from the phone to various folders or scripts. For instance, I've got a notion to send myself captured thoughts and notes to be added to an Instant Outline hosted on my server and monitored from my PowerBook running the OPML Editor.

 I've also been considering some homebrew moblogging tools for the camera side of things.

 

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