Kirylin’s Voice

Like last week, my aggregator is well under control. Again, this is partially due to a combination of my hypersensitive mouse and Reader being a bit tweaky lately. Unlike last week, though, I don’t even have a good quote for you. I’m starting to feel like a bad link dumper.

My aggregator, at this moment in time, consists of a Dilbert strip that won’t show up, an interactive fiction web site, and someone singing the glories of Zoho.

Zoho, for those unfamiliar, is an attempt to run Office as an online application. It has a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, notebook, wiki, planner, and other applications I haven’t played around with yet. I created my account right after I first broke EverNote and was trying to figure out how to best fill that void until someone could figure out what I’d done and fix it. (It’s still broken two months later…)

I personally found Zoho Notebook difficult to work with. I had the hardest time just creating a page so a friend could keep up with my reading habits. (I’ve since made my life simpler by just using goodreads.) I looked at the wiki app, and it was slightly easier to understand, but it still felt very foreign to me.

Zoho has everything in one place, and is great for getting work done without having to move around too much, and it just didn’t work for me. (It works for a lot of other people, though.)

Sadly, despite any misgivings, I’ve actually embedded myself in the Google Apps. They’re not perfect by a long shot, but they sort of fill the gaps, and I’m always on my iGoogle page anyway. The biggest problem I’ve found so far is that Google Docs doesn’t hold formatting on word documents when you upload them. My second biggest problem is that i can’t organize either my notes or my documents the way I’m used to. I keep searching Google Groups in the hopes someone has figured out a way around that.

My email inbox (a Gmail account) is a little more interesting. I managed to recover some of the lost posts and sent them to myself (since Reader doesn’t let you mark something as “unread” if the “Mark all as read” button is accidentally pushed).

There is a link to an article on the current uses of CSS to design a website. Pretty nice if you’re just looking in to using CSS (or if you’re coming back to it after a while). Article found via CSS Beauty.

School is starting back up this week for area schools, and I’m hoping to share this post I found with my students. Maybe getting them off on the right foot now will save me a headache or eight down the road.

The last post saved in my inbox is something I’m mulling over. Lately, it’s become the New Big Thing to microblog your life. Rather than sit down and write out these long drawn-out posts, people are opting to just record their lives through some combination of Twitter, Flickr, and other tools. I think if my life were more interesting, I’d consider it, but I’m really not sure who’d read such a thing.

All right…not as much fun as the first link dump. A little more interesting than last week’s link dump.

On the positive side, my feed aggregator is doing a great job of not getting out of hand any more!