Big Time in the Jungle

So the plan to learn ruby has sort of gone by the wayside. One of the major problems is that I have no specific problem that I need to solve using RoR. Which makes the learning a very abstract process.  In the course of flicking through part of a bunch of tutorials though, I have begun to see the possibilities of what you could possibly do with the thing. Although have not actually managed to install properly. The install instructions are all either horribly vague or are assuming a level of technical competence that is frankly beyond me.

Facebook continues to plague my email inbox with alerts including those from people I have absolutely no desire to think about. Which is nice. Just about beginning to see the attraction. Although still in quite a dubious, gruff sort of way.

NewsGator on the other hand, looks to be very, very useful. All sorts of useful little extras, the ability to email the contents of a feed to any email address using a pop-up box rather than transferring the link to an email client is very useful, although it does require you to remember email addresses, and will cut down on ‘replyability’. Still very nice for just firing off the odd link.

Basecamp meanwhile looks to be a fantastically useful program, and if only I had any collaborators, would be even more useful. In any case, using it to manage the label will be a useful exercise methinks.

ma.gnolia seems to be a very good bookmarking site although it does somewhat seem to go very very slow a lot of the time, and also to crash firefox when I have more than one tab open. However already it seems to be full of relatively  reasonable/interesting people, and the best quality links I’ve found in the last week have all come from here. In comparison Digg looks like complete banality.