not so surprising

Unsurprisingly my posts here tailed off pretty quickly. Sure there was ambition and drive to begin with (and there still is), but time follows it's own course and left little of it for me to dally here. So I'll attempt something like a summary of the intervening time between posts.

I finished working through the original 23 Things program. I can't recall learning anything shockingly new, but I'm generally on to new tech pretty quickly. I'm sure there were tools I hadn't encountered before, but so far none of them have been useful enough for me to consider using them on a daily to weekly basis.

I dabbled at the social networking sites, but found most of them less than endearing. I can see the uses of something like Facebook, but the interface made me want to avert my eyes and I'm still not convinced that privacy is taken seriously enough on Facebook. Many of the other tools seemed somewhat gimmicky, with little in the way of day-to-day applications.

The ones I do use regularly have all been rolled into my iGoogle page: Google Reader, GMail, Blogger, a gadget to post to Blogger, a gadget to search popular WoW databases, a pretty pony, my daily horoscope and the weather. I've also been working on a gadget to allow searches of the RMIT Library catalogue, but so far some versions of IE have issues with it so I've had to disable it until I can figure out what's going wrong.