Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
A friend of mine told me this story. She says she was on the subway and saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that says Bow before me, for I am root.
“Cute shirt”, she says.
“Do you even know what it means”, he sneered.
“Why don’t you call me some time – my number is 127.0.0.1”, she responded.
Ok, I got tired of having to check everybody’s individual blogs to see if they’d updated, so I installed NetNewsWatcherLite on my Powerbook to grab the RSS feed for each of their blogs at a regular interval. But that does me no good when I’m at work or otherwise away from my laptop. So I got a program called “rawdog” that takes a bunch of RSS feeds and puts them together into a web page. So take that, LiveJournal users – I have a friends page too: Friends and Feeds
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Besides following the Giro D’Italia live on-line, one my favourite acitivites this time of year is watching our Kodak Birdcam 2004. And today, some (maybe as many as 3) of the 5 eggs have hatched. Woo hoo!
I’m evidently the last person in the universe to discover them, but I really enjoyed the P.G.Wodehouse book I listened to yesterday (“The Cat Nappers”) and I am now determined to read the whole lot.
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I’m listening to an audio book right now. It’s P.G.Wodehouse’s “The Cat Burglars”. I’ve never actually read a Jeeves and Wooster book before, and I’m enjoying this one. But the narrator sounds disconcertingly like my ex-mother-in-law, in spite of the difference in genders. It’s a little bit jarring.