Balaji’s Blog

All caught up

Well I’ve finally managed to catch up on my backlog of links to post, so I went back to all my Geek News sites today after a fairly long break. And I actually managed to stop at Page 3 of Digg

Fresh links tonight in my blog – woo

Real World Info Virtually

I’m really cranking them out today aren’t I ?

Something that struck me whenever I get into a fundamentally new type of utility / technology (Blogging, Dashboards or a new OS) is the fact that I am always interested in finding stuff for that utility or technology that will give me more information about the physical world I inhabit / physical objects I use.

Let’s take some examples shall we?

1. My Blog – amongst the very first plugins I installed was ViperBond’s WeatherIcon. While the reasoning I gave myself “Well, now people visiting my blog know the weather where I’m at”, but that’s not the entire story
2. My Yahoo Widgets Dashboard – amongst the Post-Its, Backpackit widgets and Day Planner I also have 2 widgets to check the weather in Singapore and Bangalore. Also, another widget to tell me my laptop’s CPU utilization and RAM Usage.
3. My Laptop – I have SpeedFan installed which tells me how hot my CPU, Graphics Card and HDD are (right now that’s 58C, 50C and 38C respectively). Plus I have SigX running so that I can share with the world mind numbing statistics such as how busy my CPU is right now.
4. I suppose another one is my Xplanet screensaver. But how that works is a story for another post..

I hope you see the trend here. And honestly, I have to say it’s about in some faint way satisfying the Trekkie in me (it always comes back to Star Trek doesn’t it ). I mean, just remembering the cool stuff Spock would reel off by looking at some sensors on those blinking screens has left some primeval urge in me to be able to look at a screen and know more about the things around me.

Yes, of course I could look at the window, but where’s the fun in that?

I’m back

Not that anyone missed me , but I have been pretty tardy in posting stuff on the blog.

Work has been pretty bad these last few days but I think I should be getting caught up to some extent today (and till tomorrow).

The main way I plan to get caught up on my backlog of posts (no, not this one); mostly my daily links, is that I will not be visiting any of my favourite Geek News sites till I get all my saved sessions (using SessionSaver) posted.

And then I have to remember to stop clicking on the next page in Digg till I see a story I recognize and say to myself “Ah, I’ve gone through all the stories that have been posted since I last read Digg”