John J. Plomp: “You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” [Quotes of the Day]

Okay, who paged me with just ‘PEACE BOO’ earlier? I didn’t recognize the number.

I knew I was spacing on something today. I didn’t post anything about the Analog Lounge tonight. Oh well, you all know the deal. Come by tonight, drink, be merry. I’ll be there early on but won’t be there late. Tonight we’ve got Eli Wilkie [Agent 001, SquareOne/Axis]. Mr. Ellis says you should all come out to hear him play. I’ll be less lame next week.

Before you do any web browsing, be sure to check this list of links NOT to click on. There’s some scary ones there. [via The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]

I’ve decided that I can no longer predict which anime shows will be licensed anymore. The show that I least expected to ever get brought over here has been licensed. Toriyamaworld.com reports that the latest E-Journal from the American Go Association has broken the news. Viz has licensed both manga and anime of Hikaru no Go. I’m pretty psyched about this because I think the show is actually pretty damn good (as much I used to make fun of it before I watched/read it). Of course this means I’m going to have to wait FOREVER to find out what happens next.

Since I’d been ramping up to move my blog for a few days I hadn’t really been keeping up on all the news going on in the Blog world. One of the big things currently (well, for a while actually) is RSS. One of the latest things being Mark Pilgrim’s altering his RSS 2.0 feed to remove namespace elements and saying “Leave RSS Alone!” The thread of comments over there is pretty interesting. One thing I found particularly interesting was how various RSS aggregators handle various parts of RSS, specificly the GUID. It appears that most don’t use it for a permalink for the post, instead using the LINK value. So what’s the right solution? My opinion as someone not really that involved with the whole discussion is the software should change. While it is a pain in the neck on some level, I think the authors of the various aggregators should work to support RSS as the format is written.

The other big question is excerpts vs full posts in Mark’s feed. While I liked having the full post, I can cope with just part of it. It’s better than things like MacSlash.org, which just has titles. And in the case of Mark’s blog, going to read the full article also means you’ve got all the comments right there (and many times there’s a good bit to read in the comments).

Here’s my other issue with all the stuff going on like this. For the most part I’m just someone who wants to be able to publish a feed of his blog. While I find things like RSS interesting I don’t really have the background to know what is good or bad about it from a technical standpoint. I know it works well enough for me and is simple enough for me to gasp the basics of. I find a lot of this stuff kind of confusing (and I wonder if others in the same position as I do too). Does RSS work well enough? Should it do everything? What is gained by creating something completely new? Who invented liquid soap and why? I have no idea, but I figure I’ll just wait and see at this point.

The other day I posted a quote from Robert McCloskey. So, when emilily paged me a few min ago to say that he had passed away I thought it was kinda funky that I’d just posted something by him. When reading the article on his death I was struck by the number of things he’d written that I didn’t really remember were by him. Of course I blame much of that on being a young kid at the time I read much of his stuff. I think Make Way for Ducklings was probably the first thing I read by him. My parents had this old copy that I think belonged to one of them growing up. It certainly wasn’t new when I got a hold of it. The book of his that I remember the most though was Homer Price. I read tons as a kid, but there were a few books that I’ll always remeber and that was one of them. I also remember reading the second book Centerburg Tales, though that one didn’t seem to leave as much of an impact. I can’t wait till my nephew starts reading and is old enough for me to get him some of these books. Hopefully he’ll enjoy them as much as I did.

Here’s another link giving a bit more history of him and the books he wrote.

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About has been around for a while, though I hadn’t checked it out in ages. There’s a lot more there than when I first looked, and parts of it are still insanely funny. There’s much to learn here.

It’s time for the 26 Things International Photographic Scavenger Hunt. There’s a list of 26 things to take pictures of this month. On August 1st you post your project. Pretty keen. I just printed out the list of things to find and think I’m going to be doing this. It sounds pretty neat. [via The Scobleizer Weblog]

The weather report for today says

Today:  Abundant sunshine. High 84F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph. [weather.com]

Sounds like a perfect day to find a nice patch of shade under a tree to sit in and read. I think I’ll try and do that this afternoon. I haven’t really gotten that far in HP yet.