Thrilling Adventures in Rhyme and Space

Just got access to the preview service of Google Wave. Bit sluggish right now but it’s an interesting look at how the internet is changing. The basic use of the service seems to be a cross between instant messaging and a forum, you open a wave, title and tag it with keywords, make it public or invite particular friends, then start writing messages on the wave. The wave is updated in real time and you can either add your comment to the end of the conversation or nest it next to a particular comment.

There’s a lot of extensions being developed by both Google and thirdpartys and I look forward to seeing it stabilise. Since it’s open source I’m also looking forward to hosting my own instance on my server, indeed, i hope that sites like Facebook start using it so that all social networks can share their data and not lock you down to one service.

In other news, I’m wrestling with installing new operating systems on some HP blade servers at work. Everything is set up via a web interface and a java applet to mount virtual drives and view the monitor output. Every iso image I try to mount returns a boot sector error. Not sure what to do, more investigation needed methinks.