Mark's replacement News Aggregator page rocks my Radio world! I'm currently scanning 50+ high traffic feeds. Mark's page makes it very smooth. The default news page has tables for each item in a feed, and a table for the feed itself, in a larger table-based layout. It takes a long time to render OMM.

Mark's renders much faster, and gives me much more flexibility in my news browsing. I actually do use the features I once said I didn't see much use for, Mark. :-)

Kit is another Radio tool, which is actually a bundle of lots of little gadgets. One of them is a replacement News Aggregator page that does more than just list items: you can give a timespan for which items you want, and search by key words.

Two thumbs up, a major shout-out, and I'd be glad to show Mark some of the finer nightspots here in B-ton, if he ever heads up this way. All this, just for creating a crazy-good News page. Once you start using it, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it before...

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Actually, Al, this is a very cool idea. I'd dig getting the headlines of Jumpgate on VFTH, so I can be just that much more lazy about my browsing -- honestly, some of the stuff you post over there make my widdle head spin round, round, baby, right round. That said, some of it is certainly worth the effort, too. Thanks for keeping Jumpgate going.

Yeah, I'm pimping my own sites. So who else is going to do it?

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Spent the afternoon hacking away the nasty underbrush around the estate. Among other things I excised, a fair chunk of a mulberry tree that was allowed to grow through the chain-link fence, and a wait-a-minute bush (wild rose, but if you've encountered it before, you know what I mean).

Am sore and scratched up, but feeling better for finally tackling this nastiness.

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No, I'm not talking about that activity where gumboots aren't removed, so all you Kiwis out there can just get your minds out of the gutter. Besides, they're only annoying the Aussies who are usually in there, anyway :-) (But I love all my friends from the lands down under -- pull!)

I got shorn yesterday. I had the mancub for the afternoon, and needed to get my haircut. SHE usually does my hair, but for a lot of reasons, today I had to go to someone officially licensed to cut hair. OK, some more background facts. Being a thrifty-sort, I went to an inexpensive clipjoint, known to have only the finest possible haircutting staff. Ahem. I'm also extremely near-sighted. Like, with my thumb on my nose, the little finger of same hand is out of focus nearsighted. And the mancub is about three months away from turning four. So I was rather concerned about his behavior in that location, particularly when I would be unable to see him even if I was pointed in his direction.

Did I mention this was my first time visiting this particular establishment and the individual who did the deed? It was. Those of you who also have wavy hair know what an adventure this can be, all by itself.

So anyway, I armed the mancub with some new crayons and a Spidey coloring book (Got both for 2 bucks plus the governor's cut, total, thanks to the everything-only-a-dollar store a few doors down. Score!), and then got into the chair. I was worried about my son. I shoulda been more worried about the person holding the scissors. I think she did manage to set a new land-speed record (outside of a military base) for going from first spritz to final brushing of the hair crumbs off.

After it was done, my initial reactions were:

• At least I don't have some character or logo shaved into my head. "Look, I'm an X-head!" (Go watch The Decline of Western Civilization to better understand what I'm referring to here. It's not a *nix thing, really.)
• It greatly resembles what I imagined would've resulted if I'd decided to go at myself with a Flowbee toward the end of a serious week-long drinking binge.

Upon seeing it, SHE mentioned that it didn't look that bad. But she was smiling as she said it. So to punish her for her insolence, I took the family out to dinner last night, so she'd be forced to be seen publicly with me. That'll fix her little snarky wagon! ;-)

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