The rambling resumes!

As I mentioned on the spicy opml roll: “It’s almost making me reconsider where I keep my ‘regular’ blog. Flip-flopping — it’s not just for politicians anymore.” I guess you can call me John Kerry, then.

As much as I enjoy using the OPML Editor, I feel way too locked-in to the opml.org servers — especially when they start acting up. I can change where it upstreams, but I can only do so over FTP?! As in, send-my-password-as-plaintext FTP? As in, “the protocol so insecure my ISP doesn’t even offer it as a service anymore” FTP?

Bah, I say. Flock has quickly become my Windows browser of choice, and the immediacy of blogging through it now rivals the immediacy I found in the OPML Editor. I really like the things Dave is doing with the app, but the whole vibe of following it and using it makes it feel like the blogging equivalent of Amaya — it’s mostly a testbed for Dave to show off his new ideas for formats and applications. Trying to use it everyday, however, reveals how limited it really is once you get past the proof-of-concept layer and start trying to do real work in real environments.

So the “trifecta” experiment ends about one month after it started. In internet time, that’s like a year, isn’t it? Still, the goal hasn’t changed, however. I still aim to keep this causal and off-the-cuff. Keeping notes and having fun. The linkblog is still the focus — because that activity happens far more often than the blogging — but the weblog supplements all of that. And most of all: teradome.com is my home. After a month of opml.org, I felt like exactly what I was — a guest in someone else’s house. Ah, it’s good to be back.