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Monthly Archives: January 2005

Feeds within feeds within feeds

31-Jan-05

This is getting annoying… There are a number of news aggregation sites that pull from feeds from other websites or just link to posts on their sites. This is fine, in that I can hit one website and then see headlines from a number of websites.
However, I’m starting to notice that aggregators are aggregating [...]

Waiting is the hardest part…

25-Jan-05

So, I caved and decided to buy a Mac Mini. Rather than standing in line for an hour or more on Saturday, I decided to go ahead and buy one online — something I probably had to do anyway, since I wanted to upgrade the Mini to 512 MB of RAM and a SuperDrive rather [...]

Better late than never

25-Jan-05

Finally got ’round to adding a new stylesheet. I cheated and used one from the WordPress Styles page (this one is Dark Fire by B. A. Khan…) rather than rolling my own. I just don’t get excited about tweaking and tinkering with CSS and my Gimp skills are rather sad, really… spending a day bit-twiddling [...]

A how-to blog

05-Jan-05

If you’ve browsed through the technical section in the local bookstore, you’ve no doubt seen a ton of the “teach yourself ____ in n days” books (where “____” is some technical subject, and n some arbitrary length of time…). I’ve been thinking of doing something similar with a blog. Maybe a “learn Linux in 365 [...]

Note-taking tools

04-Jan-05

How do you take notes?
That’s a serious question, because I’m trying to find a way to manage a bunch of notes that I’m taking on various topics as I’m trying to hone my Perl coding skills. (Such as they are.)
In college, I was a copious note-taker. In “easy” classes, I rarely consulted my notes [...]

Aggregation aggravation

02-Jan-05

Spent part of today installing AmphetaDesk again, then deciding it wasn’t really worth the trouble, since it hasn’t been updated since 2002, and it seems unlikely that it will be revised in the near future.
Now I’m playing with aKregator. It has some nice features, integrates well with Konqueror and is pretty speedy.
I’d like [...]