🏷️ e:strip

Behold, the Basra blackberry raid!

For a while there he investigated if my flip-flops and toes were edible but decided on the blackberries when he realized they weren't.

Clearly, the hardy rogue is up to no good when you are not around.

I could totally see why everyone is fascinated with snapping pics of our bike-boom-boxing resident 7 footer.



But I don't get this @paul-Paranoia-look(TM). What is that about?!

anytime now!

We all know you will clear it smoothly and with flying colours!

A zillion good wishes and more coming your way!!

I think it might be helpful to document some of the weirdness that I experience with (e:strip)'s search function sometimes.

When I search for the term "wok":

• This post about my wok mania turns up: @tinypliny #54663

• This post about my Amazon disenchantment while buying woks doesn't: @tinypliny #54693 (Though, wok is prominently in the title of the post and also mentioned in the body.)

Odd, don't you think?

You are a very inspiring person, in general. I realized that yesterday, watching you work. I don't know if I ever told you.

I went home and worked a couple hours more till it was finally dawn, thanks to you. Hehe :-)

A while back, I wrote about how I was under-utilizing (e:strip). @tinypliny #54394. I am constantly making notes all over the internet and it becomes so crazy to keep track of everything. So I have decided never to log out of here and make all those notes here (except work) - which is still at citeulike.

I can't transfer all work here because then (e:strip) would also have to be my reference manager and store my million pdfs... Yeah, not very practical.

The thing is the search function of (e:strip) sometimes does not play well with my blogs. I don't know what to do about that. My one big request/feature-suggestion for (e:strip) would be to make search results somehow more accessible and context-sensitive along with the ability to use more search-modifiers... maybe.

And while we are on the subject of search, one more suggestion would be to turn up blog-numbers, or cite-able referral links along with the blog titles and excerpts in the search results. For example

Using E:strip To Its Potential...
06/01/11 @ 11:20 @tinypliny #54394
excerpt with keyword visible here

Cross-referencing would become so much easier. Currently, I hover my mouse over every post to find out the number and then string it to the name of the e:peep who wrote it. Makes for a longer workflow.

This Bergamot plant in @PMT's back garden makes really excellent Earl Grey tea.

It's quite unlike any Earl Grey I have ever had. The flavour is sharp and if made without any other tea and steeped for around 5 minutes, completely takes away any residual tiredness and has the capacity to defog your brain.

I didn't quite get the money-shot of the other visitor to the garden (@paul #54519) but here he is, hiding away and chomping in the herb patch.


I can't wait to see if @PMT will be able to set up a stall at the Elmwood Saturday Market from what ends up growing out of these beds!

If (e:strip) is not about stalking people from my 3rd grade or shouting in clipped sentences, then what is it about for me? I just came to a conclusion that I don't use it enough or rather, I have set some artificial limits for what I want to write here. I was telling @paul that (e:strip) is like the Fedora of online technology. Why not make it the Fedora of my thoughts and life as well?

I think writing for an audience tempers all of my posts here. What if I didn't write for an audience and wrote exclusively for myself? I am going to try that experiment starting today. I want to be able to write whatever I am thinking about, whenever I am thinking about it here and include links and references in context to those thoughts along with my posts.

@paul already publishes most of his life on his journal. I think that is the true meaning of (e:strip) - to be able to come online and just document what is going on in your conscious and subconscious mind and not really worry about why you are driven to put it online. The alternate meaning of (e:strip) is to be able to electronically strip the clouds, the salt scales and the tartar away from your core thoughts and just put them here for reference and sometimes, increased clarity.

Of course, I will not put work-related writing here... That is reserved for my citation manager. :)

Finally home?

~30 mb of compressed text
~2 gigs of compressed pictures
~8 years of words, thoughts and perspectives.