{"id":164415,"date":"2010-01-11T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-8018345133730421647"},"modified":"2010-01-18T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:48:22","slug":"lessons-from-my-leonine-chat-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164415","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from my leonine chat icon"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you inspect my profile on various OS X and Google systems lately, you’ll see a theatrical yawn …<\/div>\n
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There’s a lesson in the yawn. When I created a new user account on my i5 running 10.6, I chose a standard animal icon. Since it’s a family machine, I wanted to choose an icon that would impress the children (didn’t work). Hence the lion.<\/div>\n
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I then connected that account to my MobileMe account and, just as I found on 10.5 11 months ago<\/a>, the login image on the iMac propagated to all my MobileMe associated machines, wiping out whatever I had there.<\/div>\n
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It ate them.<\/div>\n
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Then, after I fiddled with iChat and Adium, it propagated to Gmail and GoogleTalk\/Video Chat and the wider world.<\/div>\n
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None of this is documented of course. It just happens. It’s an emergent behavior; a side-effect. One bit of whimsy, and bam — I’m a lion everywhere.<\/div>\n
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There will be more of these things in years to come. More strange leakages and propagations.<\/div>\n
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If you want something private, keep it on paper. And keep the paper out of range of Vicon Revue wearing lifebloggers<\/a> …<\/div>\n
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Update 1\/12\/10<\/b>: Today I notice the OS X 10.6 lion has metastasized to my Google Reader Shared By …<\/div>\n
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I’m sure this is violating all kinds of copyright laws, but all of my actions were entirely correct. I think I’ll just have to get used to my emergent avatar. Maybe he’ll appear on my virtual tombstone.<\/div>\n
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Update 1\/18\/10<\/b>: Here it is on my Google Profile. <\/div>\n
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This is really silly. I’m going to try restoring the GP image and see if it propagates the other way.<\/div>\n
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