Archive for January, 2005

SFGate finally offers RSS feeds

I noticed a link to this page at the bottom of an SFGate article today. They’re finally providing RSS feeds! I like this so much more than email newsletters.

Many thanks to whomever at SFGate got this going.

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I’m not dead yet! I feel happy!

I think I’ll go for a walk.

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Error Message Generator

Note that the “Stupid Windows error message of the day” below was not created with the Error Message Generator. Those are much more clever.

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Mac OS X for new Mini owners

We haven’t picked up a Mac mini yet. Yet. But when we do, I’ll read Ars Technica’s mini-guide to Mac OS X for new Mini owners as a quick refresher for me–used to work on old PowerMacs, you know–and as an intro for Jen, for whom the mini will be primarily intended.

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September ends?

El Reg reports AOL ditches newsgroups:

AOL is pulling the plug on servers hosting newsgroups. AOL subscribers will no longer be able to access such groups directly but will have to go through Google.

Now they pull newsgroups? Now, after polluting the Internet for eleven years?

No offense to those two or three AOLers I know who didn’t actually pollute the Internet.

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