Archive for September, 2004

Savebetamax Call-in Day Today!

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

Today is Downhill battle’s Savebetamax call in day. I am scheduled to call 3 senators at 10:17 this am (10:17? yes, 10:17).
Didn’t know much about Savebetamax until I saw it referenced on Slashdot (direct link at Savebetamax), but it seems like it’s currently the best defense against the INDUCE act and its proponents. […]

Like the new Blogger look

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

Just another aside; I like the new look of the Blogger.com header. The small, bar header is much more attractive and functional (not tomention more likely to attract new user) than the previous block-styleheader image.
Good work, Blogger.com-Folk!!

gmail invites to give away

Friday, September 10th, 2004

Just out of curiosity, to see how many folks actually hit my blog, Ihave several gmail invites to distribute, and will give 1 away to the1st 4 folks to comment on this post (provided I can discern areasonable first/last name and email from the comment).
I expect 0 takers - I don’t think many folks read […]

More aggregator experiences…

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

Just finished a long IM chat with one of the Feedster guys, and amvery impressed with their service. He fixed several bugs that I washaving problems with as I chatted with him over IM (including theexport one mentioned previously), and logged a few others to look atsoon.
More details later, but this rocked!

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

No Need to Click Here - I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

Seeking the perfect Web-based RSS aggregator

Sunday, September 5th, 2004

I’m trying some (free) web-based RSS aggregators to collectinteresting news articles, and here are some thoughts:
I should probably preface this by saying that I’d like to browse myfeeds in a FireFox browser window and that I use the ReloadEvery(http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/) to refresh my news-like sites (bothmy feed aggregator and SlashDot, among others). I should also […]