I had my quarterly appointment with my pulmonologist. As usual nothing new, but he did give me a perscription for some Tussionex, which is a narcotic cough syrup. So far it is definitely helping. I’m going to lay down and see if I can take a nice nap finally.

Daypop has been busy lately. They recently released a feature called Daypop Top Weblogs, that ranks blogs by their citations. They just released Word Burst, which supposedly tracks what people are writing about (as opposed to what they are linking too). We’ll see how well the results are for the next few days.

My new favorite OS X software review site, Perversion Tracker, reviews Opera 6.0. And it isn’t pretty.

Using Opera is like slipping on a comfortable pair of shoes, and then discovering that your formerly comfortable shoes have been surreptitiously filled with broken glass. As you make this realization, a troupe of baboons rounds the corner, baring and snapping their grisly teeth. They howl and begin to chase you. Knowing you’re the only fresh meat for miles, you start running from this horrible Ape Menace, suspecting that you have somehow fallen into the hands of the Global Monkey Conspiracy. As the simian horde draws closer, in your desperate panic to get away, you slide into a steep ravine. As you strike bottom, you awake, in bed. It was all a dream. You are safe, asleep, and your computer has only non-Opera browsers installed.

It almost sounded bad enough that I wanted to see it for myself, but I resisted the urge. It’s a shame. Opera used to be one of my favorite browsers.

From The Shifted Librarian

Tarot cards made of pictures of lego people. The Empress is a librarian. [librarian.net]

Pretty keen! I love looking at the art on some Tarot decks. I’ve always wanted to have a copy of the Dali Tarot deck.

Tonight was a night for sitting in front of the TV, munching some popcorn and checking out Shanghai Noon, which I never got around to seeing before. It was pretty entertaining. I don’t know that I would have paid for it in the theatre though. Tomorrow I’m hoping to watch The Big Sleep in the afternoon.

This is the one thing I love about netflix. I’m slowly getting to see movies I’ve wanted to see forever.

I just a moment ago realized that I didn’t have comments in my RSS feed anymore when I read a post over on Scripting News. I can’t believe I spaced on that. Luckily there was a link to a post with instructions so I could be lazy about it.

Second question for RSS geeks out there. What’s the thought on syndicating comments? Is it a good thing? a bad thing? a why bother thing? I kind of think having the link is nice, but I don’t know that I want to be continually rebuilding rss files just for comments.

So, after playing around with the software that lets me phone control my computer I got to thinking about using bluetooth for remote controls. With a bluetooth remote control you could have one that did much more complex sets of commands. You also could have learning remotes that just would connect to a device and download their command set instead of having to train it.

Now I just need to convince all the A/V makers to do this.

My friend Lukas just pointed me at this app that works with my phone and my computer called Clicker. From the readme:

Welcome to the first preview release of Sony Ericsson Clicker! Clicker lets you remotely control your Macintosh from a compatible Sony Ericsson phone. Here are some ideas on how to use Clicker:

• Control PowerPoint or Keynote when giving presentations.
• Control DVD Player or iTunes from your sofa or bed.
• Use AppleScript to control anything you like!

Further, Sony Ericsson Clicker has a built in “proximity sensor”, allowing you to trigger actions when you leave or come back to your Mac. Again, here are some ideas:

• Pause iTunes when you leave the room, turn it on when you come back.
• Use AppleScript to let your presence (or absence) control anything you like!

This is too damn cool.

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” [Quotes of the Day]

One nice thing that Radio provided me with was very basic site stats. I could easily tell how many people were viewing my home page. It didn’t give much beyond that and referers, but it was enough for my needs.

I thought about writing my own, but in the end I found MnM Stats. It’s just on version 1.0, but it isn’t too bad and does the basics for me. It requires PHP and MySQL, which also works just fine for me. Of course now I want to be able to get even more complete stats for my site. If you’re curious about traffic here you can look here