Maunderlust

You’ll notice a bunch of Amazon links popping up. Here’s why…

One of my Christmas gifts was the MacHeist bundle thing. It included the excellent RapidWeaver app, which I’m using to bang this site out. Another app was Delicious Library.

Delicious Library makes it a joy to scan and sort pretty much everything that you own into a comprehensive media database. You can use a webcam to scan the barcode on a game, movie, CD, book, or whatever. The app instantly retrieves all the relevant information about that product from the Amazon database. It then creates an image of the item and places it on a virtual shelf.

It may not sound all that exciting, but it’s remarkably fun.

Anyway, I was planning on using Delicious Library not only to organize my stuff, but also to prompt me to write about books, movies, and games on here. As I was writing the Karl Pilkington review, I went to create a link to Amazon.com, but then I remembered the affiliate program that Amazon has. Basically, if someone buys something through one of your links, you get a small percentage of the sale. So I signed up for that.

My thinking is, If I’m talking about something in a blog post and you want to buy it, cool – there it is. For those that aren’t interested, I’ll try to keep the links as unobtrusive as possible. That sounds reasonable, right?
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