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19 March 2010 @ 04:08 pm

Ambulance Blues - Neil Young

From a favorite album, a favorite track.   A haunting sense in a song.

I guess I’ll call it sickness gone
it’s hard to say the meaning of this song.
an ambulance can only go so fast,
it’s easy to get buried in the past
when you try to make a good thing last.

Neil Young, Ambulance Blues, On the Beach

There’s something so soothing to me in those words.  The song has been explained in terms of its seemingly very precise meaning by those who understood references like “Up in TO” for Toronto, with Young’s history in mind or “I never met a man who could tell so many lies” as being about Nixon.

But what makes musical lyrics magical to me is how they transcend, so effortlessly, their embedded contextual meanings, and perfectly and artfully represent my own, very different, very personal context.  

So, when I say, I don’t know what it means, as I’m doing now, I do so knowing full well what I’m told it meant to Young, but I’m really more interested in what it means to me.

One thing is clear in how something plays to my meaning — tension —  like the dynamic between the beginning and ending of a single sentence “it’s easy to get buried in the past / when you try to make a good thing last” is magestically strung out by Young with a new tonality on the second half of it, the full measure of a poetic new line that imagines it is all there is being said.

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My photo used in a CNBC article about beer.

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I’ve mentioned it a few times, but I want to talk about how enamored I am of Mailplane.

I’m a google friendly person — for a lot of reasons I feel good about google.  I’ve met Schmidt personally and have had a google account since about a month after you could have one.  And I use gmail prolifically in the following ways:

My personal long time email.  It’s my primary identity.  I don’t play games with who I am — I’m me everywhere, but I emphasize different aspects of me in my different identity’s, like the work and personal difference.  This account also polls my university account and archives it in a label so I have a long-running archive of it.  My work email auto-deletes all items in your mailbox about twice a year — too often for my needs.

My “name” account.  Know my name?  It’s easy to email me.  This email also is auto-archived by my “primary” account (which is half google-full).

Starting recently, I created an account which is exclusively for pulling in my work email.  It maintains my work email address as my default replier.  Here, I have to confess I’ve only made about a 75% switch.  For the most part I read and respond in the gmail account, but because of the lack of any kind of a hierarchical structure to view sub-groups (nested folders in groupwise, forming a navigable tree) I continue to store important event data in groupwise.  Perhaps more about that in another post, because I like the structure (up until my mail admin deletes my next oldest emails).  (feature request here for gmail — after you give me an easy account switcher client for android that doesn’t mess me up — give me labels within labels so I can make heirarchies where I need them — yes, I realize I can do that with labels and a search string).

I maintain a google apps account for my personal photography work, where I’m me, help, sales, sysop and so forth.  I’m planning on working with  my daughters and father on various jobs.

I have another google apps account for another domain name that I decided afterwards was stupid.

I’d like a google apps account for my university work.  There are several domains I might do that with…

The point of all this is that the Mailplane gmail client lets me separate all these identity’s with great granularity, but easily switch between them.  It brings other features to the table, such as screenshots that are auto-embedded in messages, and easy access to your address book and the downloads folder.  But, what I love about it is that it transparently provides the familiar gmail interface, from what I can tell, seamlessly.  The only downside is that the android phone I use is ironically awkward here, because I need to be able to read them all, and android wants you to be one google account.

Anyway, Mailplane.  I like it.  It’s worth the money.

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We're going to keep this short and sweet (Frank and birthday vgifts will be back next week). You've probably seen the updates to our main menu. Don't be alarmed. You'll find everything you need, just in slightly shifted format. Just so you know, we based these changes on input from both experienced and new users who were not familiar with LiveJournal. Our goal was to reduce barriers to usability and make LiveJournal more accessible and easy to navigate. Please note that this is a work in progress. We welcome your detailed suggestions in [info]feedback. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve your LiveJournal experience.

We've updated the global navigation menu:

Here's a quick breakdown of what you'll find where:
  • Scrapbook can now be found under Profile (thanks for your feedback, btw), along with Settings, Stats, and Edit Profile.
  • You'll find all the tools you need to post and update entries under Journal, which includes posting and editing entries, managing comments and tags, and customizing your journal's style.
  • Friends contains all of your friend settings, from filtering your Friends page to adding, removing, and finding new and existing friends on LiveJournal.
  • Under Communities, you'll find links to manage your communities, accept community invites, and create new communities.
  • Explore includes search features, RSS feeds, Question of the Day, and FRNK radio.
  • Under Shop, you'll find links to upgrade or give a paid account, buy virtual gifts, purchase LiveJournal merchandise (like T-shirts), and view your payment history.

LiveJournal Mobile update:

We've enhanced LiveJournal's mobile site to improve usability and load times. We've made more of LiveJournal's features accessible via mobile, including posting comments, uploading photos, reading and commenting on friends' posts, finding and messaging friends, and more. We look forward to reviewing your feedback and recommendations for future improvements.

Other important changes:

  • You can lock comments to prevent further commenting on a post, while leaving existing comments visible.
  • We replaced the "Tell a friend" link with a new "Share This" widget that lets you share LiveJournal posts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.
  • We changed some of the icons on entries (you can hover over the icons to view descriptions).
  • You'll see a Tag count on your Tag management page.
  • You'll now see the 10 most recent vgifts on your profile page. To remove vgifts, left-click on the vgift and choose whether you want to remove the vgift from your profile or delete it entirely.
  • We've added options to help you control receipt of vgifts, which you'll find in My Stuff under Edit Profile. You can now enable vgifts from friends or everyone and disable anonymous vgifts.

We've got your fix:

  • UPDATE: Rolling several updates into one listing here -- 1) Scrapbook should be back and working again. 2) The problem with the Update Journal page in IE6 and IE7 should be fixed now. 3) The problem with the userpic add-on package pricing has been fixed and refunds issued to anyone who was overcharged while the erroneous prices were in place.
  • Non-conforming images will now be automatically resized for custom mood themes.
  • Line breaks no longer count as two characters against your entry's character limit.
  • We fixed a bug on the Manage Tags page so you can clear all tags and add new tags.
  • We corrected the UI for the update.bml page so it displays properly in IE8.
Thanks again for joining us. Frank and company will be back next week!
 
 
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16 March 2010 @ 11:22 am
Omdat mijn ogen echt goed onderzocht moeten worden (lang verhaal, nu even geen tijd voor hoor!) en dat niet kan als je borstvoeding geeft, ben ik gestopt. Met pijn in mijn hart heb ik zondagochtend de laatste voeding gegeven. Maar ik moet eerlijk zeggen dat mijn eerste borstvoedingsloze dag mij gisteren eigenlijk best goed bevallen is! Volgens mij had Kabouter het er moeilijker mee dan ik. Ik blijf mezelf verbazen... ;) En nu (minimaal) een half jaar wachten totdat alle hormonen echt definitief mijn lijf uit zijn (nou ja, degenen die er normaal niet horen, bedoel ik dan) en dan kan ik eindelijk aan de slag met mijn ogen. (Of misschien hoeft het dan niet meer omdat het vanzelf goedkomt... maar dat geloof ik eigenlijk zelf niet!)
 
 
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