Listics

August 31

Five years ago Gary Turner opened for business his "extensible web customer oriented online collaborative customer service personalization services for customers neoportal."  I think it was a blog.

Anita has had a recurrence of her cancer.  Hold her in the light of your love and concern.

Send a salami to your boy in the Army. 

This is such an in joke it’s not even funny.  And that’s no baloney.

I’m a clickster, an old fashioned net surfer, no hanging ten off the short board of RSS for me.  I have aggregators up the gazatch of course.  Sharpreader is a good one, if client based.  Bloglines is fine too.  But in the last few years I haven’t bothered to pull RSS feeds into a daily habit.  I have a blogroll and I have people I read because I like what they write or I’m at least informed by it.  Not everybody I read is a friend and not every friend do I read with anything like regularity.  I bounce around and enjoy picking up threads where I find them.  What need have I for the new-fangled feed gadgets?  I find them as convenient as I would a distribution company dropping off a fresh newstand full of papers and periodicals on my doorstep every morning.  Conceivably, if was a grad student in a library carrel I might set up an aggregator to support some research, but day to day?  You can keep those silly short boards.  I’m sticking to the long board for my surfing pleasure.

Speaking of which.  I enjoyed this moment with Tamar Jacobson and her touch of writer’s block.

Ran across these this morning.  Thanx Susan!

Brian Moffatt is back after a month long vacation, back with an update…  he’s just life-styling like the rest of us wish we could.  Hey beamo… don’t hurt yourself playing with all those young ladies.  And best of luck on the new album.  Was that you in the yellow jersey last month in the tour de france?

Not a rock group… AKMA has news regarding the Catholic Biblical Association meeting.  My favorite line is, "the pillow is thinner than a White House apology."