Category: Miscellany

  • RSS Feed in Blogger (Pro)

    By switching to the “in-beta” pro2.blogger.com server, I was able to get the RSS feed working for Junk Mail, one of my Blogger Pro blogs. Up to now I was using Voidstar’s cool RSSify script to generate a feed, but it didn’t seem to recognize titles (it made up titles out of the first x…

  • Today I am a Man

    With my one-week probation up, I found I had something on my mind I wanted to post to Metafilter.

  • By Popular Request

    I took this picture of Morgan and Megan, who were sweet enough to pose (the flash washed it out a bit), on the set of The Screen Savers. The photo album demo went well. The studio audienced went awwww…. when they saw an album of bunny rabbit photos. What amazes me about that set is…

  • Spam in My In-Box Today

    There’s a topic on the Well with that title (Spam in my in-box today). Got a curious message today: Subject: USA Today Vote USA Today is taking a vote on whether the words “Under God” should be removed from the pledge of allegiance. You can vote by going to the following website: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/27/pledge-hold.htm Thanks and…

  • Critiques of Editorials

    Critiques of Editorials nails William Saletan’s hatchet-job on Gore: But Saletan really undermines his argument by viciously attacking Gore when no such attack is warranted. Gore wrote an Op Ed that said I told you that if Bush was president that the powerful would benefit and the average joe would get stiffed. Saletan ignores completely…

  • 'Pictures of My Cat' Meme

    Since the early days of personal home pages, the readymade shorthand for characterizing a lame website is to refer to the owner’s cat pictures. Yet the most popular personal-journal type blogs have always revealed the intimate and the mundane. It’s the close observation that sucks people in.