Plug-and-work

So the Web enables more and more people to work remotely, and live in a more decentralized way in smaller cities and towns across the country. Real life networks can start to resemble the Web. Why should one drive to an office relatively far away instead of work nearer to home or from home? Most communication is easier done over the Web even while in the office with other people sitting a few feet away. And video communication in a few years will virtually eliminate any gap.

Blogs are becoming popular for company PR. It's blurring the lines a little between internal and external communications, and corporate and personal content. Technical information is usually found in some random other person's or company's forum. A few odd people now are starting to think that we can alter the lines in physical life as well. I may not want to work at home every day nor drive long commutes every day. So why not work in an office space as near home as possible (or wherever one finds most beneficial) with other people from other companies with similar location preferences? Probably not much more dangerous information-security-wise than working at home with roommates, or in a coffee shop, or on the road travelling. We might find surprising benefits from casual interactions with people across companies. Kind of like what people are trying to do with social network these days. Plug-and-work.

Skittles

The new look of "Web 2.0" seems to be rounded corners, clean simple outlines, light bright Skittles candy colors against mainly white backgrounds. A little more Apple-like. Google is pioneering the transformation to dynamic interfaces, first with the drag-and-drop maps, and now with the super cool Finance pages where the graphs are draggable and loaded with mouseover information. They also do all the accounting work for you, which is cool for the few people who actually consider accounting information into their stock transaction decisions.

One comment I read on a random page criticized Google as not having invented anything, only making things better. (Ahem, Page Rank?) This sounds similar to common criticisms of Microsoft, which is interesting because there are other similarities between the two companies. I think Google makes things better by leaps and bounds, whereas I don't really notice the better quality effect of Microsoft. But the elements that make the things better are themselves like inventions. Maps might not be new, but who else even thought about draggable maps. Just as, to how many people did it even occur to make draggable graphs for stock information or other purposes, even after draggable maps came out. And something simple like putting user-friendly accounting statements in the format you want them. Maybe they invented common sense.

My dad is selling stocks he bought in 2000. Meaning it's time to load up on stocks.

Dancing dancing

I just found out about a new dance couple. One of those on par with the several other just-right partnerships found among the dance community.

I remember those occasions when I see two people and know, they're going to get together soon, or, they're going to break up soon (sometimes the same couple...).

A friend finally starts dating a nice guy, instead of chasing after *ssholes. My very first intuitions of offness and voidness about another person's significant other turn out to have a basis, and this good-bye should be the beginning of her self-discovery.

As for myself, well, that I can't publicize. ;) I read an interesting discussion about adoration versus love. Adoration, when a guy gives of himself completely, is a tremendous gift and we should appreciate and be awed by it.