My data is mine
Monday, 19. June 2006, 10:05:34
Interesting subjects in the blogoshere: data longevity. I agree with most of what Tantek says, and I've also read about Mark Pilgrim's latest writings. Most of what I do is also done in plain text and HTML. My bookmarks are more or less readable in ADR and easily exportable to HTML. I'm somewhat less interested in open hardware and open software, as long as the closed software produces open data, or is made to handle open data, I don't see a big problem.
There are some unresolved issues, like using online services that don't always allow export in a usable long-term format. Will my photo albums on my.opera.com still work in 5 years? 15 years? Yes, I've got lots of JPGs on my hard disk, what I really want to save is metadata about the selection I uploaded to share with others (which pics, comments, tagging).
Update: here's an example of the kind of problems online services can cause.
There are some unresolved issues, like using online services that don't always allow export in a usable long-term format. Will my photo albums on my.opera.com still work in 5 years? 15 years? Yes, I've got lots of JPGs on my hard disk, what I really want to save is metadata about the selection I uploaded to share with others (which pics, comments, tagging).
Update: here's an example of the kind of problems online services can cause.
WIDGETIZE
Aux # 20. June 2006, 15:33
About HTML - yep, every writting done by me is in HTML (: Well, I'm not so worried about exporting data from Word's DOC or whatever, but it is much simplier for me to write HTML for tables and formatted text then using Word or another WYSIWYG. I'm not worried about exporting because I don't like having a lot of stuff. So I don't like a lot of docs. Everything I think may be deleted is deleted immediatelly (: Also I don't like many opened windows and tabs. If there are more then 15-20 tabs in Opera (very rare!) I simply close Opera and start from scratch (: And I don't have bookmarks. The only thing I have in large amounts is music! Even our web-server in office is flooded with my mp3s (: But I'm administrating it, so nobody knows (:
P.S. How to turn off text dragging in address bar in Opera 9? Does anybody know?