K.'s posterous

K.'s posterous

K.  //  A linky diarist.

 
Jan 27 / 10:14am

Install your own hosted open source web bookmarking service.

 

 

Running your own Web bookmarking application has two key advantages over a proprietary commercial service. First, you can change and adapt the system to fit your way of working. Don't care about sharing your collection with the world at large? You can run a single-user instance and keep your bookmarks private. Second, you can host it on your own server, whether a small box in your closet at home, or on a co-located hosting plan — either way, you're in control.


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For the deeply independent and/or paranoid, you can build your own site with pinboard-like functionality. This one relies on the old Scuttle code. While the ostensible object of social bookmarking is to stash links for your own use, I still have this deep belief that they make good microblogging platforms as well.
via linux.com

 

 
Jan 24 / 6:52am

Self-curation

We all do it. Some of us just do it poorly.
 
Dec 9 / 12:14pm

NYT: The gadget in the marriage bed.

Excerpt:

The interloper is my husband’s iPad, a purchase I objected to strenuously. After a long day of squinting at my work desktop, my home desktop, my laptop and my cellphone, I am happy to unleash my eyeballs and retire to the quiet, still pages of an old-fashioned book. The iPad, with its cheerful icons and insistent gleam, invariably tugs my gaze away from my own reading material, an inescapable distraction. I can’t read next to it. My husband loves it.

 
Dec 9 / 10:30am

Harry Morgan, age 96

From the NYT:

Harry Morgan, the prolific character actor best known for playing the acerbic but kindly Colonel Potter in the long-running television series “M*A*S*H,” died on Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 96.