So, having complained about console feed readers, I’ve decided to put up or shut up. Or put my moneycode where my mouth is. A few months before I wrote the last article, I’d started playing a little bit with ruby-feedparser. Then I promptly forgot about it, as other more pressing matters came up.
All the major package carriers, even the USPS, offers some form of package tracking. They all work slightly differently, and all have their plusses and minuses, but they all suck. Why? It doesn’t have to be that way, if only they’d make an effort to provide more visibility into routing information that most of them [...]
Ok, I suppose it’s now official. Tonight we went to sign the contract and put down a deposit on the ceremony/reception site. So we’ve now officially locked-in a date for the wedding. It’s a little earlier than we were originally planning, but I think it will work out well nonetheless.
The few people who read this blog probably noticed a major appearance change late this weekend. I finally decided to get around to changing the theme used, as while the default Kubrick theme shipped with WordPress was nice, it’s the default, and so it’s so…default. True, changing the colors to that puky green was a [...]
… let’s go drinking! I was hoping to avoid getting mired in the details myself with the planning of our wedding. At least, that was the plan when we initially discussed not planning until after the holidays. I had these visions of sitting back, being blissfully unaware of all the legwork, details, dealing with weeding [...]
Is there anything better to munch on while waiting for a meal? Chips and salsa, especially complimentary, freshly made chips and salsa, are where it’s at. Of course, the trick is to get as much salsa-y and chippy goodness without filling up to the point where you can’t eat your meal.
Ok, I’ll admit, I’m a little addicted to RSS/Atom feeds. At current count, I have close to 400 feeds (though a lot of them are Flickr pools). My problem is, I’ve yet to find a feed reader that has everything I want. First off, let me just limit things to console-based feed readers. I do [...]
Merry Christmas! Instead of a white Christmas, which rarely seems to happen in Maryland anyway, it’s a more typical wet Christmas. Rain’s pouring down, traffic is consequently a nightmare (though not as bad as if it were snowing), and everything’s blah and grey.
Well, a week ago, on December 17, I did it. I got engaged. And I’m still sort of stunned. I can’t say that it was a real surprise, seeing as how we’ve been together for over 6 years, and have lived together most of that time, but it’s still a bit of a shock. Cathy’s [...]