Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog
Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.
Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood
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Also on this website A Basic Course in Dvorak · The Pickle Machine · The Mentos Gallery · Cocoa Table Tester · Making your Wedding Make a Difference ·
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I was invited to join Orkut today. It's pretty cool. I've avoided the various social networking sites before because they seemed too much like teenage chat rooms and dating services; Orkut, on the other hand, seems sufficiently geeky and geared toward business contacts. So I'm giving it a try.
The invitation-only way of getting in is kind of funny. If you Google for Orkut, you'll see that you can buy an invitation! Wow, that kind of defeats the purpose of networking, doesn't it? [Readers of this weblog who actually know me, personally or over e-mail, drop me a line if you want an invite. Gratis.]
One caveat: There are still "dating" aspects to the service, which you can use if you are so inclined. But don't make the same mistake I did, which was to stumble upon the personal profile of people I've known for years from a business and computer sense, to find out what their turn-ons and contents of their bedroom are. Yuck! I'm scarred for life!