Whew! It’s been a while. Funny thing, you feel like you’ve got a lot you want to talk about, but when you finally get around to firing up a blog, it’s hard to make yourself do it. Lack of time is my excuse.

So, the point of this is I am inching closer to being ready to go to Macworld, in terms of telling people about Telegraph without being embarrassed by it. Follow the link to see the spiffy new icon! There are still bugs, it still doesn’t have an iPhone-friendly CSS scheme, but it’s getting there. The point is, it’s very usable and ready to demonstrate my intentions with it.

I don’t have convention floorspace—no booth, no kiosk, just me. I only have an expo-hall pass. Not being the chat-you-up type, I’m not even sure how this is going to go. It’s my hope to just get into conversation with some people and hand out some cards, perhaps start some word-of-mouth. At the very least, I hope to get some folks to check it out and give me feedback.

Of course, getting my card in the hands of notables like John Gruber, Andy Ihnatko, Leo Laporte, etc. would be ideal, but I suspect unless I’m prepared to be pushy, the chances are small.

Timing wise, I’m looking at Thursday, January 8, from 10am to 5-ish for my attendance. Look for the 6′1″ guy wearing (or carrying, depending on how warm it is in the halls) a brown leather jacket that looks suspiciously like a famous archaeologist’s.

Telegraph has a bug while importing bookmarks saved from Safari. Bookmarks are improperly generated and are unusable. A workaround for the present would be to first import into FireFox, and save from there.

This is it: the bird is leaving the nest. Telegraph is now available as a beta application. Future improvements include drag-and-drop, sharing links with your peers, and both web and native versions for a certain popular mobile device. There are a few rough edges to be worked out before all of that, but Telegraph is certainly in a very usable state. I use it every day. In fact, I’ve used it in one form or another for about ten years for my bookmarks, and I’ve never looked back.

Overall, I think this was a great announcement. Like many, I am a little dismayed that the new MacBook does not include a FireWire port, but otherwise I am impressed. Glass screens don’t bother me in the least, and I haven’t used the button on a trackpad in a long time—I am apparently one of those rare people who doesn’t disable the trackpad-tap feature on his notebook; in fact, I rely on it, and miss I it on other machines whose owners have turned it off.
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This is not intended to become a heavy or whiny political blog (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but I will offer this: one side of the debate last night represented style, the other substance. I’ll leave it as an excersise for the reader to decide which is which.

The debate did serve as a minor test of my household’s decision to go without TV service. So far, for about a year now, we’ve relied on nothing but DVDs and video on the computer, (be it video from network websites, YouTube, or iTunes) and it’s worked really well. We only have a few primtetime shows that we follow, and we don’t think network news is worth a darn. For a panicked moment we were unable to find a full video feed of the debate. The Washington Post had our back, but it was looking like we were going to be left waiting until the next day for a second there. This was a fate we wanted to avoid, since to us the debate seemed like the new episode of Heroes or Grey’s; you don’t want to read the shocking highlights on Yahoo! News before you have a chance to enjoy the narrative in its original form. Spoiler avoidance for a political debate: who knew?

At long last, a blog, and a platform for unleashing unto the world Telegraph, my bookmark web-app. In the coming weeks, a private beta will be forthcoming. I’ll keep you, er, posted (I suppose in a blog it’s bad form to even pretend that’s a pun) as things develop.

Users of the old iList, myList, or other ancient incarnations of this app should find their old login credentials perfectly usable.