September, 2008

  1. SweetCron – Standalone Lifestream Aggregator

    I’ve been using a WordPress plugin to aggregate my comments, Facebook updates, etc. The other day, though, I read about the standalone open source SweetCron software that does the same thing only with a few extras. Just like ComplexLife, after installing SweetCron you start giving it feeds of sites you post/contribute/update to, and then it…

  2. Twittering Again (Publicly This Time)

    For the three or four people who are actually going to care, I’m Twittering again, this time publicly. All my Twitter, Facebook, comments, and other social networking crap are also on my lifestream page as well — though the CSS there is currently screwed up.

  3. Scott eVest Fleece 5.0

    As people who know me realize, I am a complete gadget freak. As such, I’ve been lusting after Scott eVest jackets for a couple years now, but never quite pulled the trigger. When I saw an announcement of the new Fleece 5.0 jacket, I couldn’t help myself and pre-ordered one which finally arrived this week.…

  4. Bejeweled as WoW Addon?

    WoWInsider has a preview of a World of Warcraft addon from PopCap Games that puts Bejeweled into WoW. This is apparently going to be completley free and I guess I could see someone playing this while on some flight to Darkshore or something, but really . . . why??

  5. Of Course They Let Bigots Vote

    Politico carried an interesting analysis of an AP-Yahoo news poll which is one of the examples of why I’m so ambivalent about voting, More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can’t win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the…