January 8, 2003 – Petroglyphs

Small world

Well, that’s just weird. I finally got around to playing with GeoURL this evening, after hearing about it Monday (The Shifted Librarian, via dive into mark, which I link to far too often with far too little to say). Within two clicks I discovered jonandnic dot com, and Jon’s post that his company is moving next door (if I’m eyeballing the photo correctly).

It seems Jon and Nic are the only ones in the city (and in a 75km radius) that have added themselves to GeoURL. I’m not, although I’ve got location metadata on my blog’s main page. I’ve made a suggestion that instead of ICBM, GeoURL use the slightly-less-proprietary Geo Tag Elements or the well-defined Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, which also happen to be used by Syndic8.com. Joshua just responded saying he does index the GeoTag geo.location, so I am now: GeoURL.

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Six months later, almost to the day, N. pinged me today with a cute e-mail forward. I responded. So I guess we’re on speaking terms again. This is, to coin a phrase, a good thing.

Hermit

In an almost completely different context, Eric Meyer has inadvertently said it all about certain recent events I’m not going to detail further:

You know, being honest? How about that? Anyone think of that?

Perhaps more to the (same, but different) point:

The more I learn about corporate behavior these days, the more I think about becoming a hermit.

I try not to think about this option too much, though, because it would (by definition) preclude seeing my writer friend. Maybe I’ll become a hobbit instead.

Posted by Wilibald Boffin of Whitfurrows at 01:02-05:00 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)