Monthly Archives: January 2005

Feeds within feeds within feeds

Posted on January 31, 2005 by Joe Brockmeier

This is getting annoying… There are a number of news aggregation sites that pull from feeds from other websites or just link to posts on their sites. This is fine, in that I can hit one website and then see … Continue reading →

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Waiting is the hardest part…

Posted on January 25, 2005 by Joe Brockmeier

So, I caved and decided to buy a Mac Mini. Rather than standing in line for an hour or more on Saturday, I decided to go ahead and buy one online — something I probably had to do anyway, since … Continue reading →

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Better late than never

Posted on January 25, 2005 by Joe Brockmeier

Finally got ’round to adding a new stylesheet. I cheated and used one from the WordPress Styles page (this one is Dark Fire by B. A. Khan…) rather than rolling my own. I just don’t get excited about tweaking and … Continue reading →

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A how-to blog

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Joe Brockmeier

If you’ve browsed through the technical section in the local bookstore, you’ve no doubt seen a ton of the “teach yourself ____ in n days” books (where “____” is some technical subject, and n some arbitrary length of time…). I’ve … Continue reading →

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Note-taking tools

Posted on January 4, 2005 by Joe Brockmeier

How do you take notes? That’s a serious question, because I’m trying to find a way to manage a bunch of notes that I’m taking on various topics as I’m trying to hone my Perl coding skills. (Such as they … Continue reading →

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Aggregation aggravation

Posted on January 2, 2005 by Joe Brockmeier

Spent part of today installing AmphetaDesk again, then deciding it wasn’t really worth the trouble, since it hasn’t been updated since 2002, and it seems unlikely that it will be revised in the near future. Now I’m playing with aKregator. … Continue reading →

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