For some reason my RSS feed is showing up as “broken” in Bloglines again. The last time that happened it was because, well, my feed was broken. But I fixed the feed and Bloglines loved me again…but now I’m on its enemies list again apparently. My poor RSS feed feels shunned.
Oh well.
One of the things I’ve noticed after moving back to DC is that I’m not as “plugged in” as I was when I was living in Silicon Valley. I read a lot of web sites and I manage to keep on top of most of the big news in the tech world, but it seems like I have less interesting conversations here. Which is somewhat ironic, because I consider California (yes, including the bay area) to be a bit of an intellectual wasteland. One of the things that bugged me about living out there was that everything was rather vapid. [Continued...]
Not that anyone cares, but I have started getting my home office set up in my new place now. I got a desk and a chair so I no longer have to use my computer while lying on the floor (an ergonomics disaster if e’re there were one). Hopefully this will add to my productivity. Or not.
When I reinstalled this site I inadvertently messed up the RSS feed URL. All should be fixed now. Sorry about that.
Up until recently I have heavily relied on my old and trusty Apple ibook laptop. Unfortunately it finally bit the dust a couple months ago (I think the system board is fried). My ultimate plan is to replace the ibook with a shiny new powerbook, but my budget will not permit the purchase of a new powerbook in the next few months. I’ve been thinking about getting a Dell laptop to tide me over until then, so I at least have something I can take to Starbucks and work from. [Continued...]
Since I have to rebuild this site from scratch, I’m trying a different WordPress theme. I’ve downloaded
Not a good week for computers in Michael-land. First my home Windows XP PC system disk died. Taking with it a lot of data that I really would rather not have lost. Then my ipod seems to have been stolen out of my car (and my PC copy of all my music was on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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