What tool do you use to read blogs? I am using Feedreader at the moment and I would like to know what other options are available. The author of Feedreader doesn't have time at the moment to continue the development of Feedreader. One of the things that frustrates me about Feedreader is the fact that postings appear in an Internet Explorer window. There is no way to customize Feedreader to point to an alternative browser like Firebird. I also find the need to constantly click "Read on" to finish a posting annoying.
Let me know what tool you use to read blogs and news in aggregated form in my comments section and why you like it. Jeremy, haven't you written a major mode for Emacs called blog-reader-mode? *laughs*
I severely twisted my right ankle playing basketball on Wednesday evening. I accidently stepped on another player's foot while trying to get a rebound. Yesterday, I took a sick day and iced my ankle / foot all day. The whole outside area of my foot is bruised. I am going to the doctor this morning. Hopefully, it isn't something serious. Bryce always warned me about this, since I was prone to stepping on his feet when we were playing one-on-one.
Steve and I played pool last night. The score is now 30-28 in favor of Steve. I wish I could put a poll out here. Then, you could vote on who you think will win.
On friday night, Mandy and I went to Steve and Nicole's pumpkin carving party. We had a great time carving pumpkins, playing ping pong, drinking warm spiced cider and sitting around the bonfire.
Saturday, we left to visit Miami University. Unfortunately, it was a cloudy day and it rained quite a bit. I took Mandy on a tour of the brick campus. We came upon the recently renovated McGuffey Museum. It was right next to a dorm (Wells Hall) I used to live in, and I always walked by. I wanted to visit the McGuffey's home, but never had the opportunity before. My ancestors learned to read via the famous McGuffey readers. They are second in the number of printed copies only to the Bible.
I ran into quite a few people I knew from my tenure at Miami: Biff Rocha, Jeff Morrow, Nate Cash's brother, John Lynch, Pat, and Joan Moynagh. It was nice to return to campus and still know a few people. Mandy and I stopped at Bagel & Deli for dinner. Then we were off to the Steel Drum concert (at Hall Auditorium). Afterwords, we joined John and Lisa for a watertower at First Run
Sunday, we went to church and ran into Joan. We had a wonderful brunch at Di Paolo's Restaurant in the Elms Hotel. It definitely featured engaging conversation. Unfortuntely, our time at Miami quickly passed and it was time to head home.
I decided to switch from my priopriety journal software to the MovableType blog technology. I must say I was very impressed at how well written the installation instructions were. I was even able to configure it properly on the first try. I decided to use mySQL as the data storage mechanism for my blog entries.
My journal is going to be discontinued and I hope to write some scripts to import its data. I must say that Jeremy Zawodny and Josh Woodward made me realize the usefulness of blogs versus journals. Josh was tired of browsing to my website and requested a RSS field, so he could read my entries thru a reader which aggregates all his reading into a tidy view.
One conclusion you can make is that I am a few years behind Jeremy and Josh in terms of technology adoption. That is not true, they are my test guinea pigs. *laughs* I should also note they are responsible for my switching from vi to emacs, but that is a discussion for another day.