Scary man-sounds from outside.

I take it the Patriots just won. Or someone's really pleased with the new "Survivor" lineup...

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Started to sweep out my inbox today, all ~3000 letters, dating back to this time last year. So I guess this is a naturally annual thing, with something about the end of the first month inspiring me to clean up in this way. The mail backlog consists of all the mail I didn't delete out-of-hand, or immediately after reading... that's a tiny minority of it. I started to make a textfile pulling out all the interesting links I found in them, but computer crashed after the first thousand, so none for you, alas. Maybe I'll be inspired to try again when I chew through the remaining hundredscore later this week.

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Less hyper about Orkut now than I was last night. As someone else put it, there's an urge to "get the high score", and make your friends number bigger and bigger. I ended up sending only one invitation email, into the heart of Arcus turf, which had the desired effect (netting me several points at once as several people joined and friended me). Traded obligatory links with a couple of alphageeks, as well as a bunch of locals who alredy had Orkut accounts, as I happened to stumble across them. More or less done with it for now, though I'm interested to see where this thing will go next.

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Volity: had our first online conference Saturday afternoon. Went brilliantly. (Summary is in the mailing list archives.) Going to do it every week, and make it a public event. For the record, it will be (until further notice) every Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern, at devchat@conference.volity.org, which any good Jabber client should be able to take you to. Gotta update the website and such, yes...