In the bag

Laptop, music, a novel tale of mythic proportions, webcam, camera, toothbrush, dress, two pairs of jeans, heels, a few assorted shirts, liberation swimsuit in case, sundry etc., aviator shades.

So am low maintenance nowadays, and I much prefer it. Early days, sorting clothes for anything would involve detailed lists on stylistic slight of hand coordinating of what ivory blouse with the tweedy pencil skirt to be worn on which occasion. Now, I toss a few things in and quicker than a dervish fifteen, am out the door. Simple and swish.

Perhaps I should return to listing everything, as am distinctly more organized that way.

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Tangentially, while acknowledging that is impossible to live without, the ego is still the apparatus as well as the biggest hurdle in any relationship. My ardent idealism is always intact, as well, my penchant for oftentimes stating the obvious.

Photo: Coffee @ TM’s

Video: The National “All The Wine” / ATX

Myspace, Six-Apart Joining OpenSocial Coalition

Point and counterpoint. Checkmate? MySpace and Six-Apart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)

Update: Beebo has joined the fray.

“Suddenly, within just the last couple of days, the entire social networking world has announced that they are ganging up to take on Facebook,” writes Techcrunch co-editor Michael Arrington, “and Google is their Quarterback in the big game.”

And so the plot thickens. Microsoft + Facebook will likely have to join in the OpenSource coalition. With Google’s open architecture, I cannot see how the duo can compete. It’s early yet to render judgement, but these are impromptu witterings.

In other news, GOOG broke through $700 a share in trading yday, closing at $707. Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s Google’s Share Price!

Screencast: Google OpenSource

Marc Andreessen, serial entrepreneur, blogger and Ning cofounder [co-author of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape Communications and Loudcloud --> Opsware], puts forth a more visual explain on Google OpenSource. The segment shown below is running on live code.

Andreessen has a brill article on the new world of open web APIs, which may be found on his blog.p.marca.

Find more screencasts like this on Ning Network Creators

October 31, Wednesday

Sweet, I thought, peeling back a smartly tied box a friend brought over. Picking through half of the candy selection then [atypical], it was only natural that I should succumb thereafter to a spiraling sugar sticky of too much, too much.

Following din, thought to step out for a few drinks, but got a touch lazy. Instead, I checked typescript on Le Script. I am a rough bit in, and though some parts of my writing are too raw and visceral for my taste, nonetheless, there are sections I am very happy with. At least I haven’t been blocked, and this in itself lends me a reasonable sense of competency.

To celebrate, I opened a beer and spent an evening spanner with J, watching Hulu. The picture quality was nice, streaming video swish. I did not encounter any 404 error during. Granted, I was on around than 10pm CDT.

So when the episode wrapped, I found myself feeling soft and densely misty-eyed.

Since when did The Office become close to the bone and, erm, emotionally tugging? Have I missed something here? Perhaps a bit of drama gets to me more now, not having watched anything for a long spanner. Maybe the solution is more Hulu.

My family loves Heroes, and I’ve only recently heard of the show, but it sounds like something with many spidering subplots and sub-subplots, like Lost, which is better DVD fodder.