I haven't visited anyone's blog lately, but I've still kept up to the minute with any updates posted. How you ask? RSS feeds.

I get feeds from blogs, news sites, and weather info. I can easily keep track of which posts/articles/alerts/comments I've read and which I haven't. It's almost like an "Inbox" for the web; where the new items represent new content from the sites to which you're subscribed ("subscribed" just indicates that you access a feed). Think about it; why load X different sites or blogs in your browser, when you can just check the RSS feeds from all those sites all at once? You can instantly see which sites have been updated since last time you checked their feed, and see headlines from the new articles or posts-- click on an interesting one and it takes you right to the site to read the full story.

Of course, we all have those little orange RSS feed links on our blogs, and we've seen them elsewhere on the web, but it may not be clear to some how you can use RSS . What you need is a good aggregator (essentially an RSS-reader). I use "Akregator" (a KDE app) and I love it. If you use Thunderbird (it's probably more likely than you running KDE on Linux/having Akregator) then I strongly encourage you to try Thunderbird's built in RSS reader. This is what it looks like showing the main feed from my blog:

Posted by ra in tech at 00:26 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

This this and this represent the biggest bunch of stupid shit I've heard in a long time.

This is about a group of self-obsessed politicians (like Hilarly) taking up a NON-issue to appear good, pure and noble to a bunch of whack-jobs; morons who believe think that theft, murder, gang violence, drug dealing and everything else that was "M - mature" rating approved in the game are signifcantly less offensive than some characters having sex (while FULLY CLOTHED I might add)!

Oh puhlease. Why is it that sex is soooo taboo and soooo offensive in this country, while guns, guts, gore, death, violence, killing and murder are so relatively benign?

Posted by ra in rants at 15:13 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

... or rather I hit someone who was running a red light. I was going through a large intersection a little over a hour ago, when I struck an older camaro which was running the red. We hit the camaro on the driver's side door which was pretty well smashed in. The good news is that there were no injuries. Everyone was wearing their seatbelts and I was able to slow down slightly in the half-second after the car appeared in front of us until I hit it, so no air bags deployed or anything like that.

The damage to our VUE does not look extensive; but at least the hood, both headlights and turn signals, the front plastic cover, front bumper cover, as well as both front quarter panels will have to be replaced.

Posted by ra at 23:19 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Some loser in a black Chevy Avalanche tried to run me off the road on the way home tonight. I was already going a few mph over the limit, but he crossed a double yellow line and started to overtake me, and then came back into my lane before he was even past me. I braked and swervered just in time to avoid him hitting me. Pissed me off, but mostly scared the shit out of me. So I followed him and watched him park and go into a store. I took down his license plate number and called the police. They told me they were going to go check him out, and I hope they did!

Posted by ra at 01:13 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

It was a good one. The ending wasn't that surprising, considering the numerous unwanted hints to which I was subjected. I had, unfortunately, already been built up to expect something of that nature. Although, I had actually put my money on it being someone else, so in a way, that the closing gathering honored that particular character was somewhat less unfathomable... or dare I say, more acceptable ... even appropriate.

Oh, and Kreature is a riot.

We will definately have to get two copies of book seven because I don't think I will be able to wait any time at all after its release to read it.

Posted by ra at 03:44 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

The moral of the story is that it doesn't live up to it. Almost any given SATA drive on the market right now offers very little or no advantage based over a similar PATA drive.

My conclusion is based on my research into the advantages and pitfalls of SATA and on my own personal experience with my new SATA II (300 MB/sec theoretical maximum transfer rate) hard drive.

Posted by ra in tech at 01:38 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Stuff going on. Some... changes on the horizon. Can't say much about it yet.

Fixing.... err-- breaking stuff around the house, then fixing it.

Have to read book 6 in a hurry before ... 'someone' gives away the ending.

Finally replaced my broken Palm Vx.... with another Palm Vx. Ebay special. Good deal and I still love the V-series.

Posted by ra at 00:56 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)