A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way

A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.

Newsgator 1.3

19 August 2003

I of course installed – Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - NewsGator 1.3 released! – this is my favorite way to read RSS. One thing I haven’t tried is running newsgator simultaneously on multiple machines. I use outlook at home and work and both machines stay on all the time. I’d like to install Newsgator on both so that the full admin interface was available at either place. But I am afraid to do so as I think the machines will likely battle to download feeds and I will see some ugly races and duplications. Alternatively I’d like a web interface to all the admin operations so that I don’t need to install on two machines.

Who reads what

18 August 2003

Ha, from my friend Tim. Probably a classic but I hadn’t seen in memory:

Who Reads What and Why

  • The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
  • The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.
  • The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.
  • USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.
  • The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave L.A.to do it.
  • The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
  • The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country, and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
  • The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country either, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
  • The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is,they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are disabled minority feminist atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are democrats.
  • The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.
  • The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

I’d guess Seattle is some amalgam of LA and SF, with maybe a little New York Post.

Desktop Heaters

18 August 2003

Hack the Planet points to a good article on Infoworld about Sun’s work to get a supercomputer on the desk. “…heat management is by far the toughest problem…” – i have this problem in spades now, we have 3 PCs around a table in my office at home, and two more in the closet + cablemodem + firewall + 2 printers + 3 firewire drives, and heat is a huge issue. Heat output will be a primary criteria in my next PC purchase.

My Chevy Avalanche

17 August 2003

Rael hates the large pickups on the road and points to stats published by the NYTimes about their impact on others in collisions. I don’t love the system we have on our highways, but as long as there are large trucks and pickups on the highway, I personally am not going to put my family at a big mass disadvantage. I’d love it if we all rode bikes everywhere in our society but we don’t.

Joi on P-time

17 August 2003

Boy a lot of this resonates with me – Joi Ito’s Web: Going P-time – rss feeds, blog comments are climbing in the priority list while email falls. Couple this with the effect of spam on the utility of email – email is taking a hit.

Ridemax

16 August 2003

Rich turned us onto Ridemax which apparently will help us optimize a day at disneyland. We are downloading now…