Year: 2006

I caught myself doing something that I never did before. And everything tells me that I’ll be doing more of it in the times to come. Since I’ve been doing it for only a couple of days, I haven’t yet figured out if I like doing or not. I’ll post more about later.

The last two weeks passed like a couple of days, and today my mother left for Russia. During her stay here, we’ve talked a lot and made a few plans on how to bring her back. In the near future. Hopefully, permanently. She’s sick and tired of Moscow, and we sick and tired of her not living nearby. We’ll see how it goes.

Anyway, I myself will see her in a week, during my trip to Russia. And then again in one more week, because I’ll be jumping all over the place like a crazy frog.

Today we went for a barbeque in the mountains. It was the most spontanoeous and chaotically organized barbeque that I’ve been at in the last few years. Despite such an organization everything went just fine and we had great time. To complete the event, I’ll make this the shortest barbeque post ever written on this blog. And no pictures were taken too.

With my come back to GMail, I’m also trying other Google tools, because it’s all about integration. One of the tools that I’ve tried before, but didn’t like is Google Reader, Google’s RSS aggregator.

I was pleased to find out that a lot of changes were made to Google Reader since my last encounter with it. The interface is way more intuitive. Things are working out faster. And there are bits hard to ignore, like built-in multimedia support (images, podcasts, video, etc), tagging (although named labeling), sharing, and GMail integration.

For the slow ones, there’s an excellent screencast that explains most of the Google Reader functions in an easy and obvious way. The screencast is a bit outdated, but it doesn’ matter much, because the pricnples are still the same, just the interface is a bit cleaner.

I’ll try to use Google Reader for the next few days and see if it will stick…