Gmail Invites Available

Heck, I'm drowning in 'em. Just let me know if you want one. (Hint - my address is in the upper right corner of this site.)

Creative Ways to Use Your Gmail Invites

Suddenly there is a plethora of gmail invites. Somone on Orkut astutely observed that it is like the stock market. The balancing act of supply and demand is amazing to watch and it's all documented on ebay. On Monday accounts were still fetching up to $200. By Wednesday they were dropping to $20, and today they seem to be plummeting further.

I gave a few of mine to some friends on Orkut. And I've looked on gmailswap.com but so far nothing quite clicked with me. So, I just gave one to a worthy soul, as facilitated by Jonas' "Do Some Good" idea.

Proud Mary

I'm so proud of my friend Mary Minow, and she should be proud of herself. I have to admit, I'm proud of myself too for encouraging her to start a blog. Hers has far surpassed mine, however. Disatisfied with some of the constraints of Blogger, Mary ported the whole blog over to typepad, and she's done a lot with it. It's called LibraryLaw Blog. Check it out!

Do I Really Need A Comments Feature?

I am now irritated with Haloscan because whatever it is supposed to load takes forever and sometimes even times out, which means my blog won't load. Grrr!

The Day the Orkut Stood Still

Imagine my chagrin when orkut.com could not be found. Just a DNS error, but it sure kept the masses out. Evan blogged some alternate domains, so I went in to poke around and wave my geek flag high. Most of the folks in there had figured out the numeric IP - I just took the lazy way - good old fashioned research into the "social network".