Category: Revelation

Friends page

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
Continue reading “Friends page”

Disconcerting juxtaposition of the day

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.

New look for my laptop

Ok, I stole the whole idea (as well as the faux Art Deco logo) from Andy, but I really like how this came out

paulart/DSCN1232 The only problem is that the Apple logo didn’t turn out very well. The one Andy sent me didn’t print all that well so I had to resize it, and that gave it some jaggies. I’d do my own, but I don’t feel like paying $25 for the Anna font for one job. Fortunately or unfortunately, I didn’t get it stuck down too well, so if I need to change it later it probably won’t be hard to do.