{"id":269,"date":"2007-11-01T01:41:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T05:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/01\/i-live-in-a-web-browser\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T01:41:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T05:41:54","slug":"i-live-in-a-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/01\/i-live-in-a-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"I Live in a Web Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I keep eying quad-core systems. With the exception of playing music, copying files from my camera, some word processing, and IM, I live in a web browser. Here are some of the big uses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>GMail, my mail client. When I&#8217;m at my computer, I almost always have GMail up. I have a client for my Treo that lets me check it there. My school e-mail forwards to GMail. My ttwagner.com and n1zyy.com mail forwards to there.<\/li>\n    <li>Google and Wikipedia. I rely on Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/333\/\">way too much<\/a>. But between Google and Wikipedia, I feel like I can do anything.<\/li>\n    <li>Google Docs is slowly winning me over. I move between my laptop, &#8216;public&#8217; Office 2007 computers, and an office computer with Office 2003, so I&#8217;m hardly sold on any one particular interface. Google Docs is word processing (and spreadsheets) without the crap, although sometimes I do prefer to have it locally. But honestly, my life depends on the Internet, so &#8216;safety&#8217; of files (in case I lose Internet access) really isn&#8217;t even one of the big issues.<\/li>\n    <li>Google Calendar has proved way more useful than I expected. It integrates nicely with GMail, sending me reminders and offering to let me schedule things that get e-mailed to me. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goosync.com\/\">Goosync<\/a> gives me an app on the Treo to sync my Treo calendar with my Google calendar. Bliss!<\/li>\n    <li>All my good photos end up on Flickr, and I buy and sell stuff on eBay often. I get my news through BBC and Google News.<\/li>\n    <li>I run a private Wiki. This is more useful than I ever imagined. I&#8217;m not quite as committed to it as I&#8217;d like, but I&#8217;m trying to keep all my class notes up there, which has a lot of benefits. During research, it&#8217;s a handy link dump. When drafting a constitution for a club here, I used that to allow collaborative editing.<\/li>\n    <li>I host a few mailing lists. Trying to keep a text file with 90 names and e-mail them and remove bounces and find people is a pain. <a href=\"http:\/\/list.org\/\">Mailman<\/a> is a savior.<\/li>\n    <li>I host multiple blogs. These are obvious, but there are some more I&#8217;m starting.\n<ul>\n    <li>One, that never caught on, takes a pretty literal definition: a <em>web log<\/em>. I wanted a way for us to keep track of petty things that were going on, and have everything logged somewhere and searchable.<\/li>\n    <li>I&#8217;m also drafting one for the Democrats. A big part of what we do is outreach\/publicity, and a blog is ideal for this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>Tonight I realized that none of my &#8216;task management&#8217; systems worked. So I set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mantisbt.org\/\">Mantis<\/a>. It&#8217;s not perfect, but it works pretty well. Setting up Bugzilla is pretty intense, but no so with Mantis. The &#8220;problem&#8221; is that it was intended for software bug tracking, not keeping track of work I have to do, so I have fields like &#8220;Reproducibility&#8221; and other holdovers from software. I may do a little tweaking. But my plan is that <em>anything<\/em> I have to do should end up in there. Everything is in one place, and I can slice the data a million different ways, by priority, by category (one for each class, one for each club, one for each major class project, one for &#8220;Life&#8221;), etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Truly, without Firefox and a browser on my Treo, I don&#8217;t think I could get by. And I sometimes wonder if it&#8217;s worth paying monthly for a dedicated server. But I get so much benefit from the services I host for myself that it definitely is.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I keep eying quad-core systems. With the exception of playing music, copying files from my camera, some word processing, and IM, I live in a web browser. 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