hello kitty

As I trawl the depths of the Interweb, I’ve been jotting down ideas for what to blog on my digital post-it notes in the Vista Sidebar. (Notionally, it’s because I only want to inundate my blog but maybe I’m procrastinating on doing my procrastinating activities - not a good sign). Sadly, I somehow mistook the delete button for the add button, and I deleted everything but here’s a few I remembered.

Sad kitty: my cats would hate this - this surely counts as animal cruelty! Only in Japan…

Are the days of the SMS numbered? As the only person using mobile Internet regularly that I know of, I’ll just say something quickly. No, I don’t think email (in its current form) can supplant SMS. Putting aside the reputation of email as being for more “serious stuff”, email is fundamentally a pull medium, not a push medium that SMS is. The usually widely different uses of the two mediums doesn’t really make a strong argument for the convergence of the two - one’s for short quick messages that you’d prefer to be received instantly, while the other’s for longer messages that can be digested at the recipient’s leisure. I guess you could do something like what Google has done by meshing email and chat together in Gmail, the logic being that both are about conversations, and they’re just different manifestations of the same thing… but I just don’t see SMS and email together as offering any additional benefits to what we have currently. In terms of cost, yes, one SMS nominally costs a lot more than one email, but my cap plan at least allows me to treat SMS as an all you can eat thing - I can’t possibly use it all up unless I text day in day out.