Some reflections on quotes from Herman Hesse:

Those whose chief concern is thought can go far in it, but they mistake water for the dry land and one day will drown in it.

Hrm…replace *thought* with *blogging* and what have you got?

I don’t know anything about ghosts, I live in my dreams.  Other people likewise live in dreams, but not in their own; that’s the difference.

Hey, you, get out of my dream!

The world outside lunatic asylums is no less weird than the world inside.

You know, taken as a whole, this weblog community is a lunatic asylum.  Now the only issue that remains is determining who are the inmates and who are the caretakers.

Woo hooo—Browse3D  just issued an updated version 1.5 of their 3-walled browser that gets better with:

• Right, left and sticky wall Web pages are active and can be navigated and scrolled when zoomed
• Copy and paste now work via the Ctrl C and Ctrl V keys on all three walls (Right, Left and Sticky walls only when pages are zoomed and active)
• Navigation features are available on zoomed Right, Left and Sticky wall pages via the right mouse click menu

Here's a pic of the browsable right wall (can have up to 24 windows):

And here's my review of the product as first released.

 John (xanga ceo-type) was soliciting suggestions the other day for features that we might like to see here. Only about 15 readers responded (are all the rest of us content?)?  I suggested the two following items with the idea of making the community seem  “more alive” in near-time:

And to give a sense of *intensity*, is there anyway to display a portal statistic that shows how many bloggers are logged in simultaneously?  Or how many have posted in the past hour?
  
Or how about some indicator on each blog, the option (premium?) of which we would have to display or not, that would let someone visiting know that we are "currently logged in and actively/interactively checking comments".  That way, the suggestion of indicated "nearness" could invite/promote using comments as near-online dialogues (much the way celeste and agrochick78 once so amusingly did).  If a reader knows that you're "actively/interactively online and checking", they may stick around or return shortly to look for a response!

Okay...onward: if I don't chat tonight with that thingamachattie (sorry, Texie, I'm stealing your word!) up there, I'm probably drunk.  If I do chat tonight, I'm certainly drunk.

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