YongKang’s Blog - Beta!

Ha ha.

It’s a pretty funny strip, with an emphasis on photography.

Holidays?

Spent the last three days on an interesting project that got nixed eventually though.

I don’t even know what I have next block, which is like, next week. Apparently the school uploaded the timetable, then retracted it for some strange reason.

The rest of the time is my usual doing-things-but-never-really-getting-anything-done-ness. I’ve resolved to get more things done though. The theme for the rest of this week is uncluttering.

I’m very unhappy with the textual hierarchy on this blog. I want something that doesn’t get in the way of the content and photos, yet has enough structure to see things through.

Clutter

Something I’ve got to admit to myself is that I will miss out stuff, that there is so much information I should just chill and absorb what I can, not attempt to suck everything up. I seem to have this compulsion to not let things slip through, and this often works against me.

Information. It’s everywhere! Just within the internet alone:

I’ve got

• url files in several folders
• terribly messy Firefox bookmarks with folders where I dumped entire windows of tabs
• several files worth of past bookmarks (some are as messy as my current ones)

My objective is to neaten up this bunch to

• sites I visit often in my bookmarks bar
• archived interesting stuff in del.icio.us
• feeds in Google Reader (although I have too many subscriptions already!)

My Google Reader has ~860+ unread items in 85 subscriptions. I want to tone this down, but I spend way too much time in Google Reader. And it gets worse when some posts are link-dense, I click through and never stop. RSS Zero is my ideal, and for now I want to tame some of the feeds that

• aren’t that valuable (I’ve got some that are really cool, but do not really contribute to important knowledge)
• have too many posts, till they get annoying (the problem, again, is that they’re pretty good/interesting information that I don’t want to miss out on)
• are idle/dead

My Gmail’s in a sort of mess as well, with many unread messages and a cluttered Inbox. That’s about it for the internet. Oh and I’ve got maybe 100 tabs open in Firefox now, it’s taking up 600MB of ram and using about 20% of my CPU all the time. Gotta cull that too.
I’ve also got a bunch of music (20GB) that I’ve yet to integrate into my library, some CDs I’ve yet to rip, and I want to tidy up the library big time. (I can get pretty anal with tagging/genres, the belief being that if I want to keep all my music in a central database, it jolly well be really neat and accessible)

Oh, and why the hell do I have 30gigs worth of Podcasts! It’s all good, but isn’t that too much space! TED is taking up most of it though, 7gigs. I like having actual video files, for my perusal offline, and I don’t trust streaming video generally. What if YouTube goes away one day?

And that’s just the computer.

Don’t get me started on my room.