Man. This time change and the sudden early arrival of evening catches me off guard every year. I’m with Russell Beattie: This time of year sucks, and it only goes downhill from here.
Since the recent demise of my iPod, I’ve returned to poking around at pre-iPod strategies for listening to podcasts in my car. Hopefully, the little thing will be returned good-as-new from AppleCare-land within the next few days. But until then, I’m left with what I can do using the Blaupunkt MP3 CD player [...]
So, after a good solid several months’ run with Firefox, the constant CPU drain finally got to me and I’ve gone back to OmniWeb. Firefox was regularly tops in the usage list, and usually sits on about 33% of my CPU and a solid majority of my 1GB of RAM—which makes my already-slow 867Mhz [...]
This article is an excerpt from the ExtremeTech book Hacking RSS and Atom. This feature explains what RSS and Atom feeds are and how you can build an aggregator, route feeds to your inbox and buddy list, subscribe to multimedia content, and more. Source: ExtremeTech: How to Hack RSS and Atom Feeds Woo hoo! Looks like [...]
Your company name:TripkodooYour company product:opml-based collaborative document editing via microformats Oh, hell. It looks like Web Two Point Oh! has nailed me on one of my stewing projects, Micronian. Sorta. Minus the OPML, really. Though, hey, Tripkodoo sounds like a cool name…
A quick further thought I had, regarding the Internet Oracle: What if I built a Jabber/AIM Oracle? You send it an IM with a request; you’re asked, in turn, to answer another request; eventually you receive an answer after a period of Oracular ponderance. Now, I’ve already found one impedance mismatch for chatbots, in [...]
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Video Games Live will not be playing any of the previously scheduled shows, with the exception of Seattle and Vancouver on October 29 and October 30. Furthermore, plans are being made for additional shows in specific markets across North America for 2006. Source: Video Games Live | www.videogameslive.com Bastards. I [...]
You know how I dissed Google Reader last month? Consider it still dissed. In fact, checking in again on Microsoft’s start.com makes me think Google has a lot to learn about making a feed aggregator. I still prefer my own in-progress aggregator UI, but start.com has me thinking about ideas to steal.
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
