Linky Linky

Lyn was kind enough to link to me after I offered to make Noir available to her. Stop in and give her a visit.

Never underestimate

The power of naps. Wow, I just was reading for a few minutes and put down my book to rest my eyes. Three hours later I woke up after having some very bizzare dreams. The one thing I remembered from before I woke up was that I had some kind of cool looking sword and was fighting bad guys and kicking their asses. (Does this mean I’m watching too much Kenshin?)

Running in Circles

There really are few happy mediums in my life. Either I spend all weekend curled up at home watching movies or I have 30 gazillion things going on at the same time and end up having things I don’t get to do.

Tonight I’m going to see Life From New York, this group of singer/songwriters who are really amazing. If you’re in the Boston area I highly recommend them. They’re in town tonight and tomorrow night at Club Passim and there’s a chance they won’t be sold out.already.

I had a great offer to go to DimSum this morning, but wasn’t sure if my friend Cheryl was going to be coming down today or tomorrow. But that was mostly due to me ending up with too many things planned at once. I did find out this morning that Sunday works for her, so I have today free. But I’ve woken up much too late to meet people for Dim Sum. I’d need a shower and I’m not even sure where they are meeting. But the shower would set me back quite a bit timewise.

Instead, I’m going to grab a yummy coffee cake muffin and watch a bit more Kenshin and see how the day develops until LFNY.

Nice Radio Review

There’s a nice reviewof Radio over on O’Reilly’s website. I think it gives a good idea of just how keen this software really is.

QOTD

R. Buckminster Fuller. “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

[Quotes of the Day]

Can I just say again

How fucking amazing Kenshin is? I’m fairly deep into the Kyoto arc (Just finished watching episode 48) and it just keeps blowing me away.

I just had to share that with someone, so that someone will be all of you.

TiVo Blues

Okay. I love my TiVo, but sometimes the company just annoys the heck out of me.  Their newest thing, they are raising the monthly price to $12.95 from $9.95.  It’s only $3, but I just don’t like the trend.  Also, they are currently offering a really good deal on a lifetime membership, but it is tied to hardware, not the customer.

I’m now considering actually getting the new model TiVo and just getting the lifetime membership, but I’m not sure if I’m ready to take that plunge.  I’ll probably just continue on, business as usual.

Friday Five

1. What’s your favorite vacation spot? San Francisco. I’ve been there a few times and I have such a good time every time I go. I also have lots of friends there who I just never get to see.

2. Where do you consider to be the biggest hell hole on earth? Yuma. It’s one of those spots in the middle of nowhere that you always stop at, but where there is just nothing but a reminder that you still have hours to go before you get to civilization again.

3. What would be your dream vacation? Oh. I’d love to be able to take a long vacation and explore Europe. Something where I could go with someone who knew all the places to go that weren’t the tourist spots. And it would be one to two months long.

4. If you could go on a road-trip with anyone, who would it be and why? Good Question. I can think of a few people, but I’d have to say either Emily or my friend Heather. They’re both good friends who I don’t think I’d kill after being in the car with them for hours and hours.

5. What are you doing this weekend? Tonight just going to veg out in front of the TV. Tomorrow I’m supposed to hang out with my friend Cheryl on Saturday. We’re talking about ordering a pizza and watching some movies. And then Saturday night I’m supposed to go to Club Passim to see Live from New York with Bree and Jill. Looks like it is going to be pretty busy!

[– Questions provided by The Friday Five –]

Radio Musings

I haven’t done an early morning ramble about Radio in a while. This morning I was reading through all the various RSS feeds I started thinking about the Radio community. RSS is way of syndicating content. For instance, I have that little orange ‘xml’ button over to the right. This is links to an xml version of my blog that people can subscribe to. There are then programs that pull down RSS feeds and let you browse through all the content from them. It really is pretty cool. I keep up with a few blogs and a number of news services this way.

But this morning I realized there is something about the use of it in blogs that doesn’t quite fit how I read blogs. These days many blogs let you post comments to the posts in them. This is actually one of the things I love about blogs. People’s web pages are not only providing content, but also have a level of interactivity. On more then one occasion people have even posted information to my blog correcting a post I had, which makes that content important.

To me, this doesn’t quite fit with the whole RSS thing. Because with RSS you don’t have to go visit the web page, which means you might not see comments that have been made to a post. What’s the solution? I’m not sure. I see two possibilities. The first is to find a way to include a link to comments within your RSS feed. Unfortunately I don’t know enough about RSS to do this. Another possibility would be to syndicate comments via RSS but that could get very spammy. Hmmm. What to do what to do.

A month of good luck!

I remembered to say Rabbit Rabbit this morning!