Synchronicity Stream
——

Jane finished up her research and contacts within an hour or two, but turned up no real leads. Minus was sitting in the lotus position across the room. This looked pretty odd, because Minus was not a small man, by anyone’s standards. He wasn’t fat, but he was muscular and stood well over six feet. With short, almost buzzed black hair, and mutton chops, he certainly did not look like a metaphysical agent at all. She popped another reality pill, finished off a glass of wine, and sat down next to him. She began to meditate, trying to reach the Synchronicity Stream in hopes of catching Minus there. She had no idea how to enter the Alacrity Motion, so this was her only chance.

She found that she slipped easily into deep mediation and was over looking the synchronicity clock within only a few minutes. She saw the stream moving at great speed below. Minus felt her enter the stream, and moved in her direction. In a few short minutes they were side by side, watching the jet streams of time and the occasional perfect moment go by.

“Apparently the years we spent in the bar were part of the synchronicity subplot of both of our lives. Best I can tell. I cannot see a why, but we should hear from Doctor Mancini soon. Any leads from cyberspace?”

“Nothing concrete. There was tell of others feeling trapped in the same bar, but in ways that were no where close to what we experienced. The bar apparently sits on a metaphysical sink hole of sorts. Many people in our line visit the place regularly,” Jane answered.

“How did you get here? I thought it was hard for you to get into the stream?”

“It usually is,” answered Jane. “But I just sat down next to you and focused, and here I was. Perhaps we should try to learn a little from each other while we wait for that friend of yours to call.”

“Good idea. Wake up.”

—-

Jack
I Listen.

The Cost of Magic
Section #8
Synchronicity Stream

• Cyberetto – My favorite Aussie Tech-Chick.
• Tatty – The most beautiful and sweet girl I’ve never met.
• Tweet-Up LA - Greg is running a great site here, trying to connect all the Twits in LA.
• Wandering Nomad – Hunee is like the Filipina sister I always wanted.
• The Horror Strumpet – Fiz is just made of awesome.
• The Broad Brush – Tojosan is very interesting. And a new grand-niece has just entered his life!
• Tofu916 – Tofu is a Hip-Hop producer in Sacramento. Hours of laughs!
• jjprojects – JJ is social media in Australia.
• Dark Thoughts – Gracie gives a hefty dose of dark erotica.
• She Geeks – Corvida covers all you need to know to be tech savvy.

That’s all for today kids. More again soon.

-Jack.
I Listen.
I Travel.

The answer there is the web service Pownce.

Pownce offers an innovative way to interact with all the different levels of friend or family or colleague.

So here’s some ideas on how to use Pownce to it’s maximum potential.

First, you’ll notice that pownce has a very twittery interface. you can use this just like you would twitter, to leave short notes to your friends or the public. But it offers a unique ability to share files, links, and calender events from the same small interface. You can make these things viewable to 1 friend, all friends, the public, or no one. Targeted file sharing is the main reason I use pownce. I run across a song, or short movie i like, and I just zap it to the people that I know will like it. You can even use the event and message systems with your GTD system.

Now, another thing you might notice about pownce is that it asks you about other social networks you use. You can keep a full list of them on your profile or home page and make a nice centralizer here. Giving yourself and your friends a nice pivot point to take in anything you are doing.

Other than being extremely efficient it also looks pretty damned cool. If you’re running Windows or Mac you can check out the AIR client here. (Hopefully Adobe will get AIR over to linux sometime soon. I really enjoy a lot of programs running on AIR.)

You can also take pownce a little further with a pro account for about $20 a year. Pro comes with a larger file share size, no ads, and customizable CSS.

Loki.
I Listen.
My Pownce
cat: internet

He had the face of a jackal.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: pownce, web 2.0, AIR, Adobe, whoring, jackal, css, file sharing, social networks, internet, computers, TechGeek, GTD, Mac, linux, Windows

New to Flock

• Gmail and Yahoo built in! Saves me a lot of time and memory right there.
• Picasa support. Pretty cool. I might have to start using Picasa
• MyWorld, the already multi-purpose Flock summary page, is even more robust.

I’ve written about Flock on several occasions, so flip through my blog if you want more. It is a very happy day for TechGeeks with no life(me!).

-Loki.
cat: internet

Force feed the homeless.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: flock, flock 1.1, internet, web 2.0, gmail, yahoo, google, TechGeek, Picasa

1. Click on “Tools” in the Flock toolbar.
2. Click “Options” on the sub menu.
4. Click on “Advanced.”
5. Unselect “Check my spelling as I type.”
6. Restart Flock.

Spell check disabled.

This post is mostly taken from the excellent flock forums post.

-Loki.
interwebs.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: Flock, tweaks, internet, spell check, browser

We found something. We loved something. We grew something. Not them. Not those people who want to throw down laws and legislation for it. Why do we get to invent something, and then let someone else tell us how to use it?

What do you love about the internet? For me it was always the freedom.

Just a thought.

-Jack
cat: internet
“From freedom came elegance.”

Blogged with Flock

Tags: internet, invention, laws, legislation, generation gap, freedom, linux mint

You have been my browser of choice for several years now, but it is time we part ways.  Sure, you’ve got IE beat down so bad it doesn’t even seem like a browser anymore.  You’ve got extensions for everything to make my web browsing easier, you’ve got a lot.

BUT you are not Flock.  Flock makes browsing fun again.  Tabs.  Everything carried over from my mozilla settings.  Sidebars for damned near everything.  Works with Firefox extensions.  Flock even looks good.  Really good.  Check the screenshot.

Media Streams are freaking awesome.  Flock automatically finds all the media on a page and will display it in a slide bar at the top if you wish.  Makes going through flickr or photobucket a thousand times easier. 

Auto find feeds for the integrated feed reader.  Which is excellent.  I’ve gotten rid of Anothr all together because of this. 

Syncs up with my livejournal, wordpress, flickr, youtube, del.icio.us, photobucket, and twitter. You can post to any of these from anywhere in the browser.  Also supports drag and drop file sharing and uploads.  Inegrated blogging interface for most sites(which I am using right now.)

Flock can be a little tricky to install on ubuntu, check out this article for help.

It’s been fun Mozilla, but we just can’t see each other anymore.

-Loki
ubuntu, phase 10

Blogged with Flock

Tags: mozilla, ubuntu, flock, computers, linux, open source, internet, browser

[edit - 11/02/07 - Added Digg This link and corrected some typos]

BUT for now, we have the first installment of the Best of Web2.0—

Basically, these are social, or technically linking systems. helping people find others with similar interests, old friends, and much more. So what are the top Web 2.0 sites? Here goes:

1. Wordpress – The best blogging atmostphere ever. It’s like there are REAL writers here.

2. Jaiku. – Where life mets life mets chaos. Microblogging at it’s best.

3. last.fm – Stay hip to your social circle here, or just try like hell to get Elvis Costello to #1 played artist of the day.

4. Del.icio.us – Book marks that are smart. View your friends book marks to find lots of new content.

5. StumbleUpon – Simple. It makes the internet fun again.

6. Gmail – Email finally done right. It’s fast, easy, and works with everything. not to mention almost 4 gigs of personal email storage.

7. Anothr – Get your feeds IMed to you. It makes the news much easier to read. Fully customizable with the RSS family.

8. flickr – As cool as picture sharing can get.

9. netvibes – If you use a customizable home page, switch to netvibes, it’s the best.

Did I leave anything out? Let me know in the comments. But Facebook was left out on purpose!

-Loki J
ubuntu phase 9ish

[edit - 10.30.07 02:53 for typos and digg.com link]