I am, of course, a hopeless neophile. I believe it's the only correct orientation toward the future, especially the future as it looks from here.

Ed says that OPML isn't caught by Spotlight on OS X. Hmm, I know how to make Spotlight plugins. I should add that to my Maybe Do list.

It'll take me awhile to get down to that Maybe Do list, though, since I've got book chapter deadlines as a steady drumbeat on through until mid-March that leave me just a sliver of time for side-hacking in the meantime.

Also, Ed: If you're still having trouble assigning links to blogroll items, I'm wondering if you've tried right-clicking / control-clicking on an outline node triangle? There should be a context menu offering "Add Link..." as an option. That'll spawn a dialog you can use to add or modify a URL associated with an outline node.

By the way, is anyone else back to using the Instant Outliner these days? My IO is here. Apologies in advance though: I'm still trying to work out quite what to use it for, or if the stuff there really belongs somewhere else. I used to have an IO a few years ago, but drifted away from the habit.

Got myself a new cellphone

• Whenever I get a new gadget, no matter how low-powered, I try to wrap my brain around it in a very real sense. I try to explore the features and see how useful they can be as things I habitually reach for in the course of thought. So, I've been having fun lately with a new LG PM-225 cameraphone from Sprint. It's certainly no mega-nifty smartphone, but it's a hell of a step up from my trusty old Samsung A500. A few initial thoughts:

  • It's nice having a cameraphone, period, as well as having a much more capable web browser and SMS messaging built right into the phone (as opposed of accessible from web forms).

  • I've installed Opera Mini, and started playing around with a mobile reading list of feeds using some code from my first book.

  • It's been nice to skim some feeds and email myself links to items I'd like to read on a larger screen - which the built-in OpenWave browser does, but not Opera Mini.

  • I've played just a bit with setting up some procmail filters to route email from the phone to various folders or scripts. For instance, I've got a notion to send myself captured thoughts and notes to be added to an Instant Outline hosted on my server and monitored from my PowerBook running the OPML Editor.

  • I've also been considering some homebrew moblogging tools for the camera side of things.