Current mood:	busy
Current music:	Emergency Broadcast Network - Get Down, Get Down

Quickie Flood
Hmm, so it's been quite awhile since I was last active around here. I've been only slightly more active over on 0xDECAFBAD, but for the most part lately I've been entirely consumed by book, day job, and side job. Well, I've started trying to gather little quick things to post. Here's a dump from the weekend:

• Pyjamarama is my song of the evening.

• I've gotten hooked on Vim, having defected from xemacs, because I like keeping more of my user interface in my headspace and adopting modes as fighting stances.

• I haven't been paying attention to my web stats. Does anyone out there actually read and enjoy my links, since I split them out of the main blog? (Just curious.)

• I've been thinking lately that my innate fashion instincts come from the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who. Thankfully, I have a girlfriend who helps dress me. The hair's still getting pretty unruly, though.

• Quick News is the NetNewsWire of the Palm OS world. It can even download podcasts! And it's only $15 bucks!

• Primus says:

  Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed.
  They don’t quite mean so much,
  Except you get to hang out with all your working friends.

• Wow. This a capella cover of TMBG’s “Particle Man” I just heard on Coverville by The Bobs absolutely rocks.

• And then, I realize that I’ve heard The Bobs before. In particular, it was from when I used to listen to the Dr. Demento Show and heard their song “My, I’m Large”. Now, that takes me back.

• Got a comment from Mark Eichin that reminded me I forgot to link to something I posted a few years ago: Perceptible interface + laziness threshold = weblog silence

• I just helped my friend Erik (aka We3bus) get The Biofeedback Blog up and running for his company with WordPress 1.5—I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with it. It was a gigantic pain in the ass, since we ran into problems with damn near every component of the setup, from MySQL to IIS to WordPress itself. Granted, this is a bit of a non-typical install, but damn… Anyway, check them out.

• A comment from Jason Clark makes me think a little more about ideas I’ve had about customized feeds to offer here for the next refresh. I’ve gotten on a run posting political links because, well, I’ve got some very definite opinions about our current situation—but you might not care about that. Was thinking that I might offer a mix-your-own-feed form where you can pick and choose from kinds of posts and tags I’ll be using. The proper place for this is in the aggregator, but it could be a fun project for the book.