Owning your MindSpace

If you're like me then having time to think is a true luxury. Task and communication overload compresses the day into a series of value exchanges that often leaves little time for consideration.
I've just spent/ invested / or wasted 40 minutes of valuable time catching up on some todo's that have sat unprioritised in the back of my mindspace for some months. I had some areas in both text and Visual realms to investigate.
Don't laugh, I finally had time to look at tiny URL service and of course to test it I scanned some of my subscribed spam for a long URL and created this BIG tiny url http://tinyurl.com/fluxcapacitor
The irony of tiny url's is that they let you make a url that can be BIGGER than the original. This means it can carry its own meaning BEFORE you click. In a world of compression perhaps a longer URL could be good?
In the visual realm I installed GoogleTalk video Conference Client on my XP platform. I await a like minded soul to try it out. I also spent some time looking at I believe will be the next interface trend, CoolIRIS. It's a big leap and will bridge us into the gesture based communications realm easily. I even found a feeling within, a rare moment of connection with some propaganda from a recent AU_US political meeting have a look and tell me the world is the same now that two leaders let their staff post "happy-snaps" on Flickr?
http://tinyurl.com/happysnapschangetheworld