DLed and installed Gaim yesterday.

Yeah, I suck.

Patricularly, I’m using it to see how a P2P file-sharing system could work through this multi-network protocol.

Many people have already compared Gaim to Shareaza in how it logs on to Jabber (having trouble with logging on it as gmail.com), Yahoo, and a few other networks almost simultaneously.

Now if they only allowed search-and-share for multiple folders….

Plus, I figured that VLC isn’t as notable than Media Player Classic for a reason (or two).

Thus, scratch VLC. Media Player Classic will be on top of Firefox in the near future, and media will be bookmarkable; and you can kiss WMP, Real, Quicktime, and maybe even Winamp goodbye.

Now, I know that Yahoo may have come close to this idea…..

P2P through IM.

Search for, download, and Share files from your approved hard drive and web folders with your IM friends, be they on Yahoo, MSN, Google, ICQ, or AIM.

Thus, when you aren’t interested in someone else’s gift of gab, you can still stay connected just to get what they got!

…er, *have*….whatever.

If such can be invented, it’ll provide me with a sole reason for coming back to instant messanging.

Anyway, about to watch Michaelle Jean get invested as Canada’s new GG. Yay!

Remember Real Player? (http://real.com)

Yeah, *that* one.

Well, as much as people hate it for all its worth, I have found my inspiration for the ideal media player (which I dubbed “Windhorse”).

Features of Real which I like:

1. The combination of a media player on top with a web browser on bottom (and library, CD Rip/Burn, Playlist, and Search on the side).

2. Format universiality (plays copyrighted formats from Real, Apple, Nullsoft/AOL, and Microsoft).

3. Bookmarks for both web media and web pages.

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Thus, I’ve decided that the best way to enable the most streamlined web media experience for users of Mozilla Firefox would be to

1. embed VLC Media Player directly into the top (and sides) of Firefox.

2. enable total compatibility for all formats (as long as ActiveX isn’t involved, of course).

3. Enable the bookmarking of media for Firefox.

1. I was stoned for the first time at Chi Phi. Yay me! (That 5th puff, though, shook my lungs up something terrible)

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My Commentary: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12702269&postID=112732706454683431

Original Post: http://44southstreet.blogspot.com/2005/09/answers-to-answer.html

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At around 12:00 AM this morning, after coming back from a weekend down in WR, I finally registered for Gmail.

That’s right. I have a cell phone now….and itty bitty one at that.

I couldn’t fall asleep for quite a while this morning. How did this happen so fast?

I’m now one of millions of people who are basically OWNED by Google now.

No offense to Him, but I think that Google is comparable to God in a lot of ways.

1. Squeaky-Clean interface. No clutter, no frills, legal stain resistant.

2. Indexes everything that exists on the Internet, except for those which are guarded by the robot.txt (it’ll destroy those later: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076).

3. Basically owns the Open Source Revolutionary Movement.

Thus, is Google the corporate earthly incarnation of God?

No….it could be the ANTICHRIST!

:-O Oh Noes@!

Originally posted at http://www.livejournal.com/users/greysontiger/273980.html?thread=555324&style=mine#t555324

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Even though I’ve departed from doing the IM dance with Yahoo (and everyone else, for that matter), I’m still maintaining my fat-ass archive of Bookmarks, feeds, and tags at MyWeb (http://myweb.yahoo.com).

MyWeb is basically Yahoo’s foray into the territory of http://del.icio.us (why is it spelled that way?, I wonder. Must look at Wikipedia a bit). In both services, one can upload his/her bookmarks onto a public archive, categorized by such things as alphabetization, tags, dates, and so forth.

The reason why I haven’t tried del.icio.us is because, in a similar case as to the whole IM thing, I’m a bit too used to Yahoo to make an outward switch at this time (maybe later, but not yet).

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In the meantime, I’ve decided to pioneer a new idea of P2P communication.

It’s called the telephone.

Now, why am I thinking about doing this?

Simply put: 1. I won’t have to rely as much on the Internet in order to communicate with other people.

2. I’ll actually be able to hear voices. Voices! Oh happy day!

3. It’s less lazy (and, by extension, less easy) to communicate with other people through word of mouth. Thus, a greater sense of genuity.

4. Less typing. I would need my typing for writing pieces like this one.

What do you all think?

Further details on the next post.