Snowl: A True Version 0.1
Snowl: Unified Messaging in Your Firefox Browser (via TechCrunch)
From our buddies at Mozilla, a new novel idea has been proposed. An inline RSS-reader (which could kill competitor Sage, a Firefox extension) and inline Twitter reader. What they want to incorporate is email and instant messaging support. Is it possible? Sure. Right now, is Snowl worth it? No.
That’s completely expected of a 0.1 version. The main things missing in this app are one main feature of any Twitter client or RSS reader (the “Mark All as Read” feature), a basic GUI (it’s incredibly simple and minimalistic, which is good, but it’s almost too plain), difficult navigation (I didn’t know where to find it in Firefox), and not enough integration (but this will be added in the future, I presume).
So my review? It’s good. It’s decent, but it’s needing a lot of work - work I’m confident the guys at Mozilla labs would put in.
Closing Time: The Lou Frey Experience
This is going to be one of those reminsicing posts that are incredibly too sentimental. Too damn bad. That’s how I feel.
Before I start, I know “Closing Time” is either about a bar or being born. I don’t care. This really fits how I feel right now.
Closing time - time for you to go out, go out into the world.
You all know how true this is. If there’s one thing this Academy taught me, it’s how politics is all about relationships. I’ve made so many, not just with speakers, but more with you all. I definitely have made so many relationships and want to keep in touch with so many of you forever and ever 
Closing time - turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
If there’s one thing this camp taught me, it’s that whatever you think you’re doing in the dark will always come to the light. Be it whatever you’re doing at camp or Florida’s sunshine laws.
Closing time - one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Though we didn’t drink (seriously.), it’s true. These past two camps have let me know that whatever unfinished business we have, be it with God, be it with politics, be it with others — that we truly need to finish them, end them, put them behind us. Our new life begins now.
Closing time - you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.
So true. I want to go home, but I want 20 other kids following me there. I can’t express how much I’ve gotten to know these people in the past two weeks and how much I hope to see them again in a variety of occasions. Be it a symposia, a night out, or back when we go to college, I can’t wait to reunite.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home…
Not a reference to a boy, to a girl to anything. It’s more like I want you guys to take me home, not physically, but spiritually and mentally. Remember me. Remember all of us. Keep in touch and never lose the friendships we worked to build these past two weeks.
Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will be from.
Pretty self-explanatory. Unlike us Central Florida kids, most of you all will have to go back to Boca or Live Oak or wherever you’re from. It’s not that far, it’s only a few hours in the spectrum of things, but it’s so far away in everyday life.
Closing time - this room won’t be open ’til your brothers or you sisters
come.
Totally a college reference. Our dorms are our rooms, it won’t be open until college students take over. With that said, we’ll become college students — some of us in the fall, some next Fall, others the Fall after that. The doors might be open, but we won’t feel at home until we know our peers here are coming to their open doors as well.
So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits - I hope you have found a friend.
So true. Time to pack up, get out, but make sure you keep and treasure the relationships we’ve made here - Democrat/Republican/NPA, from Palm Beach to Bay to Hillsborough to Orange to Seminole counties.
Closing time - every new beginning comes from some other beginning’send.
This is my favorite line in the song. This new beginning was Lou Frey. It’s coming to an end. Our beginning will become our lives from here — college life, the end of our high school lives, and our lives as newfound and cherished friends.
Thanks guys for the most kickin’ two weeks I’ve had all summer. I’ll remember all of you, forever and ever. Keep in touch and let’s hang out soon!
Mid-Morning Phone Calls
Is this a new trend of the summer? And how come they choose to hit when I’m not sleeping and when my cell phone is near unusable. I was expecting one, though it came a bit late, from a friend who’s at a camp out West. She’s got an excuse.
But my best bud just called me, roughly at 2 o’clock our time. He really had nothing important to say, which makes me think “why are you calling me at 2 in the morning?”
Moot point.
Also, a sad note. George Carlin has passed away this morning at the age of 71. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends, and we’ve lost another hero, folks. A morning vlog will cover this in more detail.
Tags: calls, carlin, cell, dead, george, in memoriam, mid-morning, phone
Writer’s Block: Favorite Lyrics
Thanks to
Evan Almighty
So I can’t post now, but stay tuned, here’s my teaser trailer for a long long post about Evan Almighty and how it made me angry about both my faith and how I think Christianity is trashed today. Yesterday, it hit me that the Great Commission could be fulfilled in our generation, but not with the view of Christianity movies like Evan Almighty show us.
But that’s all you get for now. More coming later.
Finally I figured out…
…but it took a long long time…
So today was definitely a good day. I woke up, feeling kinda energized. That was funny. After less than 5 hours sleep, really funny. So the irony is when I could be getting to bed early I’m posting on LJ. Funny.
But I woke up, ate my Cheerios, grabbed some good Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and went off to school. Another day on the grind. So I get in to first period, we’re going over essay practice, real simple stuff. A chill period like usual. Got it done quick. It felt weird not having homework to do first period.
Now there’s a turn about..
Then second period came. Dreaded Chemistry. God, I’m such a better writer late at night. So, I walk in. Boom. Pop Quiz. Yuck. Survived with a 70, to go to the lab which I also survived it. We had to figure out theoretical solubility-product constants. Yummy. It felt so wrong when I wrote it down, but it actually turned out to be right. Our lab data on the other hand, is looking around a 65% percent error. Whoops.
but maybe it’s cause I’m trying…
So I go to APES, find out there’s no quiz, and a gigantic extra-credit opportunity tomorrow. I plan on milking it for about 87 extra credit points. That’s HUGE in the Colester’s class. Plus I want to do my nine-weeks review so I can get AP Exam question practice.
There’s been times, I’m so confused,
So I walk into AP World, we get a crapload of work. I’m really starting to worry about my exams. I brought my review book and took the diagnostic exam fifth period. I got a 4 on that, meaning I feel pretty confident for the multiple choice on the real exam, which isn’t as hard as the practice exam.
Acting comes and goes. We finish Streetcar. Yay. Finally. Spanish comes and goes — more subjunctive and a project meeting with Harrison and Jessica and Nirali on Thursday. I really really like my group. We all seem motivated to do stuff, which I’ve never seen before TO THIS LEVEL. Math comes and goes. I talk to Bojana and get all this lip gloss crap on my lips because she put it on my hand. Whatever. It’s all good.
The bell rings and I make my way to Chem for the exam. I figure out the Ksp again, getting the same answer, only to find I was right in the first place. Wow. What a waste of worrying. Jason Mraz was right.
and all my roads, well they lead to you…
So I’m texting Sam (who I WILL see on campus sometime!) and a bunch of people and just chilling out. I head into the media center, sit with Kristin and Dillan and pull a bit of third-wheel stuff. Nothing too extreme, I actually knocked out my Spanish homework in there. So I mention Moe’s and Kristin invites me to go to Moe’s at 7 that night. I was really excited to be going with people for once.
I just can’t turn and walk away…
I got home, chilled out and watched an episode of Family Guy before I dreamed about homework. I IMed some people and just starting chilling out. I got chugging on it while listening to Real Radio, and I zoomed through it. Score one for willpower today.
I then went to Moe’s and had an absolute blast with Alyssa, Tarah and Kristin. We seriously really enjoyed ourselves, and probably most of it was due to Alyssa’s craziness. I then texted half of my address book which made me happy to now that I was loved.
It’s hard to say what it is I see in you, wonder if I’ll always be with you
Words can’t say, and I can’t say enough to prove it’s all for you…
Powerful, powerful words. Seriously. And I think they represent my night. After I got home from Moe’s, I watched the Mets bullpen blow another game and see my audacity of hope get abolished again tonight. More on that tomorrow with the Pennsylvania primary. My mom had me stay up an extra hour to help her on the computer for her schoolwork. Originally that annoyed me, but now I think I’m alright with it.
I also talked to a few people. I secured a time to hang out with Hunter soon. Because, God, I miss that girl. I also talked to a few more people and realized that as much as I love this Sister Hazel song I’ve interpolated throughout this entry, and however true it might be, I’ve got many “you”s in my life right now — be it different girls, family, friends, grades. I don’t think it’s necessary to limit to just one and I feel quite great having more than one. It’s a major self-esteem boost. Will I eventually limit to just one? Sure. And it’s worth noting that my religion is above all this, nothing is getting close to tumbling that down at the moment. But I think I can’t say enough to prove it’s all for many of you — those and that — that are able to shape who I am today and who I am able to influence tomorrow.
Dexter + 420 Fun
I love it. I love it so much that I want to keep Rachel’s DVDs forever.
No, seriously, I’m on the third DVD of it. I’m on episode 10 which is the first episode of two on that DVD and the fourth one has the last episode on it (ep12).
With that said, Eli Aguilar has your first 4 episodes DVD as Nooshin recommended her to watch them. I’ll see what I can do to get those back ASAP.
By the end of this week [Friday], if all goes well, the 2nd-4th DVDs will be back in your possession. 1st will come asap from Eli.
Also, I just was informed there is a fire in the back of my neighborhood behind some brush on the golf course. It seems like a brush fire, but my neighbor said a suspicious boy was cutting through his backyard and might have committed arson for a) fun or for b) discarding his lit cigarette, be it tobacco or marijuana, after all it is 4/20.
Three Gripes
Gripe #1: How come Facebook assumes that everyone who went or is going to my High School is friends with me? I think ‘People You Should Know’ is a good feature in the long run, but come on, I am popular — but I don’t know EVERY SINGLE STUDENT. It would be much better if it found parallels with clubs or classes. Just my $.02.
Gripe #2: How come my internet sucks a gigantic one? Seriously. I had to go back in a reset it again. That just becomes annoying after a while.
Gripe #3: What idiot was in charge of scheduling the Magic vs. Raptors PLAYOFF GAME #1 at 12:30 pm Eastern? I’ve still got 30min of Church left as do a few of the Magic’s biggest fans. Follow the rest of the sports world and start afternoon games and contests at 1PM. It’s a standard, follow it. I hope that first 30min is just pomp and circumstance, but I hate missing part of a sporting event, even though I am DVRing it.
Holy God, an update?!
Hey guys. What’s going on?
I know it’s been a while. But I’ve really started to LJ again. It’s gonna be fun posting to some communities. But what am I supposed to do on LiveJournal? Talk about my day. Journal entries. That whole jazz.
So I woke up, got out of going to my sister’s volleyball game, and planned a ride to go to Delano, our local little neighborhood cafe. It’s a real nice place, next to Guruv Yoga, which I’ve been planning on checking out.
So after I got a bowl of Baked Potato soup and a White Mocha Espresso. Real good stuff. $10 later. But still.
That prompted my thinking of how much I need work. But it, however, would be wise to wait until sixteen. Then more jobs will open up.
After grabbing a thing of cookies, I went to the intertroupe picnic. We were the only troupe who showed up which was ehh, but the entire event was pretty fun except for the time I caffeine-crashed in the middle. Real bummer.
I was going to go to Lexi’s Party, but since I got home with just about 2hrs left in the 7hr party, my family deemed it illogical and I didn’t go. Kinda sorta bummed about that.
So I went home, got on AIM, and started to talk to Sam. Pretty fun conversation. I’m really glad I’m getting to know her.
So it’s about 10min to 10pm and that means that it’s time for the UFC fight. So time to do some homework and get ready to watch various half-naked grown men fight it out to the bitter end. I love it. No homo.
Holy is the Lord
Here’s my youthy post.
Ant got stuck in traffic and went out to eat with Jo.
But like a good man, he had his mom pick me up. I really appreciated that.
Youth was amazing tonight. I just feel transformed. I’ve been listening to contemporary Christian all night. I love this stuff.
Reading the Bible too. Everything’s just so amazing right now.
I’m planning on going to Rock the Universe. Both days. Friday with my Christian-Teen-Forums buddies and Saturday with 722.
It’s just so great, I feel so spiritual.
I’m gonna go read Guns Germs and Steel while I have the Z pumping through my earbuds. Tomorrow’s day #1 of Study Mania with Sumalee and then Jinja that night.