Brian Kerr

Please read:

• Sue regarding Mother’s Day.
• Dan regarding certain kinds of video games.
• George regarding the Google Web Accelerator.

Lately, I’ve been organizing my notes and stuff; it’s great to get it under control. I’m historically really poor at recording which books I read, storing notes in any retrievable way, and identifying books I’d like to read in the future. I don’t have a really good solution yet, but I’m getting there. One side effect of the above is that reading doesn’t seem as risky a proposition any more, which means that I’m doing a lot more of it. The interesting parts of this process are identifying what I sense are the atomic units of dead-tree knowledge, and coming up with a way for documenting and referring to those units. Does that make sense? Sweet, sweet del.icio.us currently provides the best solution for handling (read: building context for) references to web stuff; the challenge is in devising a way to fake it if you’re in the library, or holding a library book you can’t deface.

Ultimately, I’d like to be able to approach a snippet from a book, a reference to a page or section of a book, an e-mail conversation, an IM transcript, a web link, or a “document” in an approximately equal fashion. Memetic.