Uber Geek
Today i have mostly been perfecting the art of being an uber-geek. I truly feel i have stepped up a rung on the ladder to true geekdom by ;firstly, getting myself a new google mail (gmail) account; secondly, creating a Flickr account to host images on; and thirdly, converting from MSN Messenger to Trillian. All in one morning!
I am not sure i can take all this excitement, so i am going to try and explain it all in an effort to sort it out in my own head:
Firstly, 'Google Mail'. This is still in the testing phase (beta phase), therefore membership is by invite only at the moment. Basically, the select few (comme moi!) are to use it and comment back on it, then improvements will be made and it will finally get released publicly. So far, excellent. However i have had troubling importing all the contacts i have added over the years to my hotmail account - i cant be bothered to do all 150 odd of them manually!
Secondly, the 'Flickr' account. My colleague Damien assures me that it is truly geeky to have a 'Flickr' image hosting account, if you use Blogger you will know that you can insert images and blogger will 'host' them for you. However you can only host such an amount before you will have reached your limit so having somewhere else to host them is a good idea. This little baby is on flickr:
There are lots of hosting sites i.e. MSN Groups or Flickr. I have had my MSN Group (tabilda@hotmail.com) for about 2 years but, like hotmail, if you don’t use it for a month then it can close itself down taking all your images and documents with it. So i have been pointed in the direction of flickr.
And finally, Trillian. If you messenge (is this a word?) then you will know what a pain it is to have 2 windows open for separate accounts. Trillian allows you to register up to 10 accounts so that you can track everything from one window. It also stores your messages if you select that option, so that the next time you close a conversation window before noticing what has actually been sent you can find it.
Anyway, i hope you are as impressed with my new knowledge as i am! This weekend i am decorating my new house so i will try to pick a job that i would normally shy away from, like washing up or changing a light bulb.
Tabilda x
I am not sure i can take all this excitement, so i am going to try and explain it all in an effort to sort it out in my own head:
Firstly, 'Google Mail'. This is still in the testing phase (beta phase), therefore membership is by invite only at the moment. Basically, the select few (comme moi!) are to use it and comment back on it, then improvements will be made and it will finally get released publicly. So far, excellent. However i have had troubling importing all the contacts i have added over the years to my hotmail account - i cant be bothered to do all 150 odd of them manually!
Secondly, the 'Flickr' account. My colleague Damien assures me that it is truly geeky to have a 'Flickr' image hosting account, if you use Blogger you will know that you can insert images and blogger will 'host' them for you. However you can only host such an amount before you will have reached your limit so having somewhere else to host them is a good idea. This little baby is on flickr:
There are lots of hosting sites i.e. MSN Groups or Flickr. I have had my MSN Group (tabilda@hotmail.com) for about 2 years but, like hotmail, if you don’t use it for a month then it can close itself down taking all your images and documents with it. So i have been pointed in the direction of flickr.
And finally, Trillian. If you messenge (is this a word?) then you will know what a pain it is to have 2 windows open for separate accounts. Trillian allows you to register up to 10 accounts so that you can track everything from one window. It also stores your messages if you select that option, so that the next time you close a conversation window before noticing what has actually been sent you can find it.
Anyway, i hope you are as impressed with my new knowledge as i am! This weekend i am decorating my new house so i will try to pick a job that i would normally shy away from, like washing up or changing a light bulb.
Tabilda x
posted by tabilda at 9/22/2006
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