Divine Modern


	You click, it chronicles. What more do you want? Release 0.1.0
	Continuing with our break-neck release frenzy, Divmod is pleased to announce version 0.1.0 of ClickChronicle, our browsing history and search server. This is the same software that powers our free service at ClickChronicle.com (go sign up!). CC allows you to find sites you've visited using search and greatly reduces the need for bookmarking. Having said that, it allows you to bookmark any of your visits and will soon provide a bookmarklet to allow you to bookmark from the browser. This release is noteworthy for a couple of reasons: one, if you are too paranoid to use our service, you can run your own server and still get the benefits of having all your history searchable on the net; two, CC is currently the best example of a full running multiuser application written using Mantissa and Axiom.


	The ClickChronicle cometh
	I spend a lot of my time surfing, exploring, observing and learning. I sometimes bookmark pages that I know I want to get back to, but what about the pages that I don't a priori know I'll need? I often find myself in a new context, needing something I read recently but didn't bookmark (since it wasn't "important" at the time). I then get frustrated as I have trouble finding it even with the help of Google and Firefox history. Enter ClickChronicle. ClickChronicle implicitly remembers every page you visit so that you don't have to remember to remember. ClickChronicle is a combination of a Firefox extension and a web application. The extension sends click data back to clickchronicle.com where the pages are indexed and optionally cached. You can then search, and find, all the pages that you have recently visited. To give you the best of both worlds, ClickChronicle will also allow you to bookmark and tag pages either as you surf or from your history. Check out the nascent FAQ and a couple of screenshots. ClickChronicle is the first of Divmod's disaggregated lightweight applications and, as glyph mentioned, we are planning to release a few more this year. ClickChronicle should be available in the next week or so. Stay tuned for more applications built on Divmod's Axiom, Mantissa and Nevow!


	8 minutes for your data
	I installed Google accelerator and on a pretty active day's surfing it saved me 8 minutes. The 8 minutes came in dribs and drabs of a second here and a second there; 8 minutes as one chunk would have been worth it but the accelerator didn't really accelerate much for me. I uninstalled it. For that meagre saving, Google got all my click-stream for that day's surfing. Like the Google toolbar, the accelerator has access to pretty much all the unencrypted data that went through my browser that day including email addresses entered into forms and the like. It seems to me that the Accelerator is the free crack that gets users to give up large amounts of very personal data in the guise of speeding up their surfing experience. This data can be used in a variety of ways, most obviously to make Google's advertising more relevant. For some it may be a fair trade, but for me my data is more valuable than 480 seconds of time saved in a onesy-twosy way. I guess Google is trying to see how far it can get with pushing the envelope of "do no evil"; spyware disguised as a web accelerator seems to be on ragged edge. Current Mood: awake


	Low-fi special effects
	When Dogme 95 first hit the news with their manifesto of ambient lighting, no digital effects, handheld DV, etc I started to wonder how special effects could be done within these constraints. I decided that there was not much to be done beyond Fangora style gore. Here are a couple of pieces of work to prove me wrong wrong wrong. Matrix Ping Pong (windows media) and Magic Shadow Current Music: The Pharaohs - The Pharaohs Love Y'all