Saturday, August 21, 2004

While political heavy weights slug this out, I try to recall Febuary 28, 1969. I can't. But I was probably at my next door neighbor's house celebrating his 8th birthday. I had turned 8 just a couple of months earlier. I didn't know that we had soldiers getting killed in Viet Nam. I knew that the New York Jets had beaten my beloved Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl. That was the extent of my tragedy that winter. My point is that most of us were not around or were not paying attention to the events of the day. To make a big deal of it now is silly. The only reason to make a big deal of it, is to deflect questions about your past. If you can't defend your past, attack your opposition. That's leadership? A true leader would stand up and say, "yes I dodged the draft, because I didn't believe that we were fighting a just war" or "I dodged the war because my family was rich, so I didn't have to go". Now, we know that ain't gonna happen. 1:01:31 PM     Comment []

I am giving NetNewsWire a look. I looked at it briefly before, but never found it significantly better than my browser based aggregator. And then my 30 day trial ended. For some reason I decided to look again and pay for the experience. In general, it is nice, but I don't see it replacing browser any time soon. Subscribing is very simple (too simple perhaps, because you can subscribe to the wrong feed if you are not careful). I like the combined view of headlines and summaries, but I would prefer to mark items as read and collapse them with one key stroke. I would like to be able to select a number of posts (probably non-contiguous) and then give a single key command and have them marked as read and collapsed to the headline. Finally while the weblog editor seems to work well with UserLand Radio, it doesn't work as well with Manila. I can't post to Manila departments, like I can to Radio catagories. Anyway this is a test post coming from NetNewsWire. 11:50:45 AM     Comment []