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To edit a comment, you must click on the author name in the Manage Comments page.

Quite a cryptic way of denoting edit functionality.

Why didn’t they use a simple link, like the Unapprove / Spam ones?

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Mark has sent me a link to an interesting video today, a countdown from GameTrailers.com.

Top Ten Years of Gaming.

And I’ve discovered I’ve played most of the games showcased there. It feels weird. Especially the Atari ones. I remember the graphics, the sound effects, every little detail.

Like all the moaning that my sis did when she lost in any game. Or how mom used to hide the Atari machine and uncover it only on Christmas, Easter and summer holidays. Or how I’ve spent my first gaming night, a Saturday night, sis was sleeping and parents were out. Me, the Atari, the hard-to-handle, easy-to-break controller with the big red button and some apple and pear flavoured sweets.

Then the PC came along, emulators, other consoles… Evolution.

But the Atari games still are my first gaming experience. And I’m so proud of that.

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Apparently lifestreaming is the new black in the ‘nets, these days.

About a month ago I stumbled upon mr. Yongfook, who has a very interesting blog-turned-lifestream. I love the way he incorporated all of his digital presence in one page, without being too cluttered or chaotic.

Yongfook.com pretty lifestreaming

Kudos.

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I’ll admit it: Google Reader is the one app that got me into feed reading (rather, checking) again.

I used to dedicate large chunks of my ‘free’ online time to check feeds into NetNewsWire. The latest version was nice, but something didn’t click eventually. I stopped using it and started getting some things done instead.

Then the need for me arose: I needed my feeds, everywhere. To check something or to gather info for upcoming articles. The obvious solution: Google Reader.

I first was kinda taken aback with the whole exporting-importing procedure (which was kinda hideous), but when I had my feeds all neatly categorized, I was up and rolling. I actually found out that I checked feeds much more efficiently in Google Reader, while being natively in the browser, I could check out particular blog posts and blogs in a breeze.

So I’ve found the equilibrium between effective time and casual feed reading, all because of it.

I have a pet peeve though. A particularly annoying one.

I use to star all interesting articles, to write about them later. So when I’m browsing the starred posts and decide to remove one post from the list, I check on the star and it vanishes. But why doesn’t the post vanish too from the list?

Ok, there’s no star, why is this in ‘Starred’ list?

I actually have to hit refresh to get it off my screen. Which is kinda annoying.

I guess they did it to avoid ‘losing’ posts accidentally in all the heap. But why can’t this be done with an undo technique, like in Google Mail?

Sigh.

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What’s the best way to avoid writing anything of importance in your blog in such a stressed day like this?

A meme!

Days ago, John invited me into a meme I saw just recently. I’m supposed to showoff my desktop, so here it is:

I obviously dislike clutter, and I obviously call my Windows Bootcamp partition ‘Untitled’.

I use Desktoptopia for my ever-changing wallpapers, but I loved that one so I hit pause.

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