News You Can Bruise for 2005 December 14

Kevin heard the songs I've been recording, and compares my music to Joan Jett's. That's nice of him to say, but I think he's only saying it because "Get Around" has the same meter as "I Love Rock and Roll".

Finished two songs and two recipes today!

Feedburner's FeedFlare looks like the feed-annotation device I proposed early this year in the Ultra Gleeper post-partum entry "RSS aggregator as task aggregator". FeedFlare lets you munge the entries in your RSS feeds, adding arbitrary sidebars and tools to each. In the original entry I said:

It's a good idea though, until someone gets mad that you're changing their RSS feeds, which I estimate would take 16 seconds.

I was clearly a little off on my timing there, because it's been at least 18 seconds and I don't see anyone who's complained about this yet. I guess all the people who would get mad are still diverted by the spectacle of Greasemonkey modifying their web pages.

"Halcyon days" explained. From Kevin.

Sumana is reading The Mythical Man-Month. This reminded me of a Segfault story I never finished, in which I alleged that most of the people who'd originally bought that book had confused it with a sensationalistic book of cryptozoology published at the same time: The Mythical Moth-Man.