10. September, 2003 - quickies
- This Feed Validator for RSS and Atom is handy if you’re making your own RSS feed, like I am. [zeldman]
- Huh! I didn’t know about the OpenBSD Manual Pages: afterboot(8) man page. Handy!
- In Be it ever so crumbing... jr’s got some tips for people buying homes. Mental note made. [jr]
- Check out James Howard Kunstler’s Eyesore of the Month. Well, someone’s a bit cranky about design in America. And looking at the pictures in the archives, it would seem to be for good reason. [some gal]
- Asbestos, Not Rock and Roll, Fells Warren Zevon. He died of mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos from a factory he worked in, not smoking or a rock ’n’ roll lifestyle. Wonder why this didn’t get more press. [colby cosh]
- The Dog Days of summer seem to be stretching extra-long this year. I only whined about allergy problems twice last year and three times the year before, and it feels like I’ve been complaining about ’em for months already this year. I’m not sure if it’s the dry weather this year that is making things worse, but I feel like I’ve lost most of the time since mid-August to days of sniffling around with a head full of cotton. Yesterday was another miserable day, and I nearly filled the kitchen garbage can with wadded up bits of snot-filled paper. Ugh. Claritin alone isn’t doing the job, and I think the goal for today is to head down to the drugstore and get out the heavy artillery. Benadryl and Sudafed (or generic versions thereof) are both on the shopping list, and taking Benadryl is going to mean days that are lost to a drug-haze. Hopefully I’ll manage to be at least a little productive, but at this point, I wouldn’t mind just sleeping until it snows.
- Hey. Apple’s sold over a million iPods. And I just noticed that if you look at the iPod name umop-apisdn, it looks like Pod! I hadn’t really noticed that before and wonder if the reason I find it insteresting has anything to do with the previous post.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:48:26.