Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

badmagic wrote:

And in the news, Senate republicans have been pushing for a change in the filibuster rules. Demovcrats have been insufficiently obliging, only confirming 127 of Bush's 129 nominees. Don't they know there's a war on? Yes, I suspect they do...

'The senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last vestiges of the old republic have been sweept away.'

Thank you, Darth. Next?"

Another "where'd the day go?" day yesterday. Failed to get ahold of my brother when I tried to do so. Got some minor things done, but bounced between sleep and wake, and between groggy and alert, several times. No idea why I'm awake at this hour; probably going back to sleep again real soon. Trouble breathing the past couple of days. Gonna need to refill my Albuterol prescription in the next couple of weeks, I think. Started a bio-chem research project via search engines, which I'll post about soonish. Practiced mandolin some more. Thinking of adding another 8-bar section to "Deer in the Headlights"; not sure yet.

#include <stdwhine.h>

"Need more RAM. Need more pixels."

Looking at patterns in my browser usage while digging into this research project; noticing that I'm not just chasing links, I'm chasing ideas/memes/terms. That is, I stumble across a term that gets me closer to my goal, and open a new Google window to chase that term, in addition to the windows I open to chase embedded links. Adds up to a lot of pages.

I find myself wishing for the ability to "highlight" passages in such a way that I can bookmark and close the window, and when I open it again later, the highlighted passages will still show as highlighted. Wondering what the best ways to represent the markup in the bookmarks/highlights file would be, and how many other people would find this concept useful.

What I really want is to have is a combination of the best aspects of hypertext and this Wonderful WorldWide Wibrary (search engines and all); and the best aspects of a bedroom floor covered with opened magazines, encyclopaedias, and other books, with Post-It notes and index cards and two colors of highlighter markers. (Highlighting only on magazines and photocopies, not on the Books, of course.)

Need More Pixels. That many open books and magazines eat up a lot of floorscreen space.

Idea for a tool is starting to gel. Might have to be at the OS / window-manager level instead of the application (browser) level to be really powerful. Hmm. Somebody else must have thought of this. What the Hell would they call it if I want to ask search engines to find it for me?

Need more pixels. Need more RAM.