Yesterday, almost 80, sunshiney and beautiful. This morning, much cooler, dreary and gray. Makes me glad I took some time yesterday to start really getting ready for winter, when I’ll want to have plenty of food at home so I don’t have to venture out. I cleaned out the big chest freezer (it’s been empty since June, but was a little gunky and needed a wash) and plugged it back in. And ordered a quarter of a cow and a half of a pig from the butcher. Should be ready on Friday or Saturday. Today I’m hoping to empty the little freezer and the one in the bottom of the fridge so I can defrost those soon and get them back into the regular “food I’m going to eat soon” rotation.
I don’t think I’m going to get many interesting pictures of foliage this year. The trees seem to be dropping their leaves about the time the colors start to get good. One of the TV weather guys said it was because we haven’t have a hard frost yet. Whatever the reason, I just haven’t seen the burst of colors I’ve been hoping for. The trees are either still green and holding onto their leaves, or brown, or bare. Maybe next year.
- The Saints have a Battery Back For 2006, having signed Matt Hammons and Jeremy Frost. League meetings will be held this Sunday and Monday in Dallas and there will probably be a lot more news then. I’m pretty sure I’m going to renew my season tickets, but I’d still like to have some more details on the new league before I plunk down the money.
- John Gruber talks about the Life of an independant mac software developer, specifically Brent, who did NetNewsWire. It kinda meshes with Joel’s essay on Setting Your Priorities. Yes, it’s probably better to sell shrinkwrapped software, especially if you can own the market like Brent does. But doing that requires you to have a decent idea and follow through on it. [kottke]
- Here’s the story behind the myspace worm, and also the technical explanation of how it works. Zow. And really funny. But some people just have too much spare time… [flutterby]
- If you write blogging software, you may want to check out the notes on the Weblogs.com Cutover. It may affect how you go about pinging the server to tell it your blog has updated. [scripting]
- Jakob Nielsen talks about Weblog Usability and lists what he thinks are The Top Ten Design Mistakes. jr breaks nearly every rule and I find I break a bunch, but probably fewer. We’re such rebels, I tell ya. Steveo’s got his take, too. [jr]
- Cool. The Wikipedia’s got a list of Made-up words in The Simpsons that’s a pretty darned handy reference, actually. [kottke]