Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp. Some people are trying to reduce their electronic presence, and discovering that doing so is not as simple as it would seem. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Technology]

As far as stuff being on the net never going away this has long been a truth, even before things like Google. Google has just made it all the easier. I remember when they first announced having the usenet archives and went back and looked to see if I could figure out my first post. As far as I can tell it was something about a video game I was playing on my Sega Genesis. But that was over a decade ago.

I’ve been taking another attitude myself. I want to just about own my name on the net. Then I can control it ^_^.

Good stuff.. I think possibly the most interesting thing in the world is the intricate network of connections between people. Possibly, it’s the only thing in the world. That, and colors. Colors are neat, too. [evhead]

I have to agree. I’m continually being surprised by the connections between my friends and acquaintences.

So I noticed that I can get simple stats on my blog. Basicly how many people have looked at it, the ratings they’ve given, and the average. One thing that jumped out is I got a lot of 1s and a fair number of 10s. This got me to thinking, what do people think makes a good blog? Personally I’d rate my site around a 7, so the 10s surprised me (I’m guessing it was friends of mine). But I don’t think I’d rate it a 1. I can’t even think of what kind of blog I’d give a 1 (maybe something using blink all over the place or some unreadable font and no content).

I was just looking through the suggestions in my TiVo and noticed that it had recorded ‘The Donna Reed Show’ for me. I was so psyched. When I was in college we used to have Nick at Night on almost every night and that and ‘The Patty Duke Show’ were our two favorites. I didn’t even realize TVLand was showing it.

Jules Renard. “Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it.” [Quotes of the Day]

Evan has been trying out Six Degrees.

Six Degrees.. I’ve been trying Creo’s hotly anticipated (or at least written about here and, moreso, by Joel) Six Degrees “timefreeing technology” the last couple days. I have yet to see its revolutionary impact on how I work÷but these things sometimes take time. [evhead]

I beta tested this product and thought it worked well and was pretty cool, but I didn’t find it immensely useful in how I did work. I also thought their price for it was pretty steep.

I’m trying to find the other cool email application I saw a few months ago. It was written in java I think and would pull down your mail and index it and make it available for reading through a web site that it ran on your local machine. I remember the site for it was originally at mac.com, but now I can’t remember what it was called. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

The guestbar over on Boing Boing has a great little bit on emoji.

Since i-mode was first introduced in Japan, mobile phone users there have used text emoticons called emoji to send dense messages in fewer bytes. Top providers DoCoMo, J-Phone and AU/KDDI have begun offering proprietary sets of emoji characters enabling two users on the same service to send messages to one another on the go without conventional text.

(Unfortunately there’s no way to link to the guestbar articles.)

Wired.com has an interesting article up about a slightly different use for blogs.

Seniors in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, with mild to moderate memory loss, are writing Web logs to help them make sense of their daily lives. And the activity, they say, is slowing the onset of their symptoms.

I really liked the article. It’s cool seeing someone find interesting ways to apply technology. While a blog isn’t required for this (a paper journal could do), it has the added bonus of being something a patient’s family could read. Helping them understand what is going on better.

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Haruko is one of my favorite characters from FLCL. I was in Newberry Comics today looking for used CDs and I saw it on the wall and it just called to me.

MacosXrumors.com has some great previews information on 10.2. The more I read about it the more I can’t wait for it. I’m really tempted to install the copy of the early build I got earlier this week.