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Automatic e-mail notification of weblog updates has been added to the site. I also discuss RSS, post some links to Alex and Lauren's crap art, and talk about the death of Ken Kifer, my legs, Shabu Shabu, and "Lost in Translation".
If you look on the side-bar, you'll see that you can now
subscribe
to the weblog. This way you will recieve an e-mail with
a summary of the new entry whenever it has been added. It goes without
saying than nobody but me will ever see your address and I will never
give it out or use it for anything other than weblog updates.
I've had an RSS feed here
for a while now, but I didn't start reading RSS feeds myself until a
couple of weeks ago. Now I think they're great and don't know how I
lived without them. No doubt this is old news to most bloggers. Instead
of manually polling
a bunch of websites using bookmarks, I can just
read it all in one place, through a unified interface. I read quite a
few weblogs, so this saves me considerable time.
It took me a while to find an RSS aggregator (reader) that I liked. I eventually settled on nntp//rss, which lets me read the RSS feeds through a standard usenet news reader (I use Mozilla Thunderbird). However, I just switched over to Aaron's RSS to Email Aggregator, a Python script that e-mails each story instead. This way I don't need any special software and everything stays synchronized in the various places I access the Internet.
Alex has a new site: Crap Art. Some of it is better than just crap, but some of it qualifies. Thanks to the wayback machine, I also managed to restore the index file for his old site, which has been missing for more than a year.
Ken Kifer, author of the bike pages I linked when I left on my Portland trip, was killed a couple of weeks ago by a drunk driver. Although I never met or talked to him, I felt like I knew him through his writings, and by all accounts he was an amazing individual. His bike pages will continue to be maintained by members of the cycling advocacy newslist he set up, which is a good thing considering the temporary nature of the web. The enthusiasm for cycling he transferred to others (myself included) will be a lasting legacy. I never considered drunk driving to be that big a deal (though I never did so myself, since I rarely drink or drive), but this event makes me reconsider.
My legs are still giving me problems. After the last log entry, they got much worse, to the point where it was extremely painful to walk. Now they are very slowly improving, but cycling is still not possible (I tried). The weather is really nice, so it's unfortunate that I can't get out there to enjoy it, but at least this makes it easier to take having to be indoors all day for work. The work is keeping me very busy, but I'm enjoying it.
For lunch yesterday a few of us went to Young Young Shabu Shabu
and had hot-pots. This was a new experience for most of us. There's a
hole in the table with a hot plate, and you get a pot of broth and a
plates with raw meat, vegetables, mushrooms, fish balls and other stuff,
which you cook yourself. It's really good, and for a pretty good price.
During the meal at one point I jokingly said (in my best ugly american
voice) we paid ten bucks for this and they don't even cook it for
us?
. The funny thing is that evening I went to see Lost in Translation with
my office-mate and the two main characters have the same thing for lunch,
and Bill Murray's character complains, what kind of restaurant makes you cook your
own food?
Anyway, both the food and the movie are recommended.
Posted on Sat, 27 Sep 2020 at Victoria, BC, CA (altitude 26m) (map/google earth)
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