(picture)

November 22, 2003

Presence

Skimming through a few interesting articles in my aggregator (this pointing to this, as it happens) something flashed up briefly in the margin, just off to the left of my focus. "Oh", suddenly - "I wonder who's there"?

Imagine my disappointment: it was only a tooltip. Nobody there at all, really.

Sadly, there still exists software like that - "context" without "presence". Until we fix that bug, I'll likely have those little anthropomorphic hallucinations more often.