This is pretty cool. You can now setup your Bloglines account to display weather for various cities on top of bringing you your daily dose of news feeds. Good stuff.
As much as I like desktop aggregators there’s just nothing like the always on service of Bloglines. Even when my iBook is sleeping or in transit I know my news is just a click away.
Ha! What a joke this is. From the New York Times on April 22nd. An article by one James Brooke discussing the ban on U.S. beef currently imposed by the Japanese government.
This comes only a few days after an editorial piece by Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the Times regular columnists, about how people are losing respect for the press. Yeah right, the computer misspelled those names. Maybe Mr Kristof should forward his piece to Mr Brooke and his editor.
Unfortunately, due to their system requiring payment for older articles, I can’t provide links to either of them. The Kristof piece was titled “A Slap In The Face” and it ran on April 12th. A list of his columns can be found here.
I thought the recent move to my new host had gone smoothly. Everything looked good and I was happy how quickly it all came together. The end of year holiday season is rather hectic after all. Not as much face time with the iBook as I usually have. So I was rather surprised today to discover that my RSS feed and archive pages were missing in action. How lame is that!? I had neglected to bring across my htaccess file. Argh!
Everything should be working now…
We’ll I think I’ve made a decision regarding my forced move away from Bloghosts. I’ve opened an account with A Small Orange and I’ve been playing with the account over the last few weeks. Things seem to be in order and their response times are good so over the next few weeks I’ll be moving this blog and all my other sites over to them. Hopefully all will go smoothly. Unfortunately, if you’re looking for a new web host, they have recently stopped accepting new customers. Something about reorganizing to handle future growth. They may still be accepting new customers via email though so if you’re really interested it’s worth a shot. Leave my name as your referrer and I’ll get a month of free hosting.
Well it was probably too good to be true. My web host is closing its doors. I’ve been happy with Bloghosts since I found them earlier this year. They’ve always been responsive and the service has never left me wanting more. The price was definitely right! Then recently I noticed a distinct lack of any activity on their RSS feed. I decided to load up the home page and what do you know, I have to get packing. The only thing that scares me is that, had I not decided on a whim to check out the page, all of my sites (including those I run for clients) would have suddenly gone dark on January 1st. I’ve had that experience before with an outfit called Eryxma Networks and I hope to avoid anything like it in the future.
I have a little statistics package called ShortStat running here that gives me a quick overview of who’s visiting my site and where they’re coming from. It was with some confusion then that I noticed people coming here over the past few days from Antipixel. What’s that about? Your guess would have been as good as mine.
I could not imagine what I could have done to garner a mention on Jeremy’s award winning and very interesting (if I do say so myself) blog. As it turns out, I haven’t been mentioned at all but rather I am now the happy resident of the last spot on Jeremy’s blogroll in the Japan section. Cool! I’ll do my best to offer up a bit more in that catagory in the near future.
PS: For those who haven’t read Jeremy’s writings, I suggest you drop by and check him out. I always enjoy reading his thoughts whether it’s Japan, technology, or anything else that catches his fancy. And the photos he posts are always excellent.
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