September 29, 2003

RSS Feeds for Newbies Did you ever wonder what is that red XML icon on the bottom right of my blog and in tens of thousands of other web sites? It is the link to my "RSS Feed". Many people say RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". That means you can subscribe to my site if you use software called an RSS reader. With it, you can see when I have a new post, and in my case, the post itself, without having to go to my site to check. You will be able to see what posts you have read, and which ones you haven't. This saves you quite a bit of time, particularly if you read many feeds. Click on the above link for Lockergnome's quickstart guide to RSS. One of the downsides for me having a feed is that I have no way of knowing how many people are using it, because I am using Radio Userland and don't have my own site with my own weblogs to analyze. The hitcount reported on the sidebar doesn't take into account RSS traffic. So if you are using the feed and love my site, please let me know via email or a comment or something so I know that the RSS feed and my site is of value to someone. :) 11:56:12 PM    trackback []  comment []

Big Heads are Better It turns out that the bigger your head, the smarter you may be when you get older, believe it or not. This Guardian Observer news link describes a study done by Southhampton University scientests that shows a sizable correlation between the size of a group old people's skulls and their performance on memory and intelligence tests. The bigger, the better. It seems humans have developed large heads, in general, and that is why birthing is so difficult. But suppose future technology will enable us to make them even bigger, with genetic engineering. The births would have to eventually be caesarean or maybe by then gestation could occur completely outside the body. This would increase the brainpower of the populace, at least somewhat, which I think would be only good for society. Of course, by then, we may have much better ways to increase our brainpower. 4:47:47 PM    trackback []  comment []

Renaissance? I have a feeling that I may be getting back to blogging. But I'll believe it when I see it :) I basically took the summer off because I was busy at other things. Summers are like that.  Now it is autumn again and it is getting colder out here in Calgary so I am doing less bike riding and thus have a little more free time lol. (I laughed because I've been unemployed for a while now.) I'm not sure how this blog will turn out this season. I am thinking of changing the content. I will keep doing links and comments similar to what I was doing, since I am still interested in that stuff. However, I may do entries on what I am finding to be interesting in the area of software and general web sites that I find useful or interesting. I am also going to experiment with posting short paragraphs on things that I am thinking about or thought provoking questions. If you have any ideas or topics that I could post about, drop a comment here or email me at my spam filled address lol bjkrawchukXXX@hotmail.com  (Take out the XXX string) Hopefully these changes will make this blog a little more read than it already is, which is almost not at all, right now :) 3:37:56 PM    trackback []  comment []