November 26, 2009
Cornucopia

Cornucopia

It’s Thanksgiving again! The time to eat and… well… eat some more! But we must all remember that it is also a time of thanks. So today this blog post is here for me to thank everyone. Hurray!

Of all the programs that I could be thankful for, I think I’m most thankful for Google Chrome. It’s the browser that I use to do everything that I do — from checking my email to writing this blog.

I am also thankful for Twitter, one of the two platforms I know of that can connect me to a bunch of people with skills that I don’t know, but would like to improve on. Another nice thing about how twitter works is that short messages are the norm — you can type a few quick messages and run by if you don’t have time. A lot of the time I feel bad not being more wordy, but I am thankful for Twitter’s limits.

I would also like to thank all my supporters in all the things I do — I have a nice cloud of fans who want to see Ripple on, spurring me forward to work some more. To these people I give a Tome of Thanks. I have some people who support me in my desires to draw, so I give these people a Tableau of Thanks. I have still others who support my love of coding and working on the computer, so I would like to give these people a Ton of Thanks (Yeah, sorry, I ran out of words that start with T). For the rest of you, you get a nice Turkey of Thanks. Enjoy your turkey dinners!

There are a lot of other things I can be thankful for, like computers, my parents, Second Life, so I’d like to them all at once in one big thank you.
So Thank You! :)!
I would also like to thank all you readers for forgiving me for not spending enough time thanking every little thing into great detail of my life that you probably aren’t that interested in anyway.

October 30, 2009
I finally have it!

I finally have it!

I have Google Wave. I got my invite on October 23, 2009, and at first, I had no idea of what to do with it. I signed up for an invite to Google Wave a while ago, and when I wasn’t let into the first wave (no pun intended) of users, I was upset, but I decided I didn’t really need it after all. How do you test a communications platform with no one to test it with? It completely defeats the purpose of testing if the only person you can talk to on Wave is yourself.

And then finally, I get my Wave invite a week ago. I was completely at a loss as to what I should do — I had gotten a Wave invite, one of the most sought after things in the modern world, and I knew I didn’t need Wave. I probably wouldn’t even need it much. (Getting bored? Keep reading. You might end up with one of my 20 invites.) Continue reading Riding on Google’s Wave »