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August 20, 2003
i am not a number
(yet another moblog that didn't publish. damn).
very cool macosxhint by andrew stone on how to deal with the rash of sobig emails if you use mail.app under OS X. should work for eudora and other non M$ smarter mail applications....
this from slashdot:
"The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others who are served by shelters and care centers. The system will track people by their SSN, and will collect health (HIV, pregnancy) and mental information. Secret Service and national security agents can gain access to the database by just asking for it! EPIC has released a fact sheet on HMIS, and the public can comment on the guidelines until September 22, 2003, but no electronic comments are being accepted."
hollywood are idiots: this article complaining about how use of SMS text messages are destroying hollywood marketing campaigns for movies, by killing first weekend hype. i beg to differ. while SMS can help deflate a movie, two other, far more likely culprits come to mind, the simple phone call, and bad movies. i'm far more likely to use the minutes on my cell phone then to use SMS, which costs me and most other users money to make and receive. most people i know are annoyed by SMS, because they either haven't figured it out, or it costs them. (which leads me to the telcos are idiots for charging extra for a feature that saves them money...)
the register is reporting that apple is going to update it's powerbooks this week...
right now i'm at kenneths, for the day/night at least. staci is over using the wi-fi. this is so nice. BANDWIDTH! ahhhh.
A couple of pretty quick and easy ways to keep track of your favorite weblogs.
You can sign up with Blogstreet.com, and they'll set up an IMAP email account for you on their server, so you can just use (about) any email client to read posts. Adding subscriptions is a bit awkward: the easiest way is to look for a white-on-orange "XML" icon somewhere on the blog's main page, copy the link, and paste it into Blogstreet's subscription form.
If you don't mind remembering to visit a web page instead of using email, Bloglines.com makes subscribing a whole lot easier. Sign up, then go to the EasySub page, drag the link to your "Links" toolbar, and when you're at a blog you want to subscribe to, click your "Subscribe with Bloglines" link and if the blogger's done the right thing, you're signed up. Then when you find a post on your "My Blogs" page at Bloglines that you want to rant about later, click the "Bookmark This" link under the post, and it'll be copied over to the Bookmarks folder in the left frame.
If you just want to have a list of links to your favorite blogs, sorted by when they last updated, sign up with blo.gs, use the teeny tiny search box in the upper right to search by name or URL (or use my bookmarklet), then click the link thing at the end of the link to the blog (a plus in a circle in Mozilla, something broken in IE as I remember) to add it to your favorites list, and next time you come back click the "just my favorites" link to clear out the chaff, and you'll have a list in last-updated order.
Whole Wheat Radio, An "Interactive Radio Theatre And Music Party Webcast" from a 12x12 plywood shack in Talkeetna, Alaska. Great indie music, domestic disputes, and blogs read live, all in a glorious stew, being remixed based on what people are saying in the chatroom at the time. (both from phil ringnalda)
Posted by parody at August 20, 2003 04:36 PM
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What is the advantage to signing on with blogstreet or I am just too stupid to understand?
(which jenn are you looking for? enquiringf ffej's want to know!)
Posted by: Oakey at August 20, 2003 08:23 PM