Archive for 16 December 2007

Winter is coming

Posted: 16 December 2007 in Uncategorized
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It snowed yesterday enough to cover the ground, but freezing rain turned to rain overnight and it was all gone by morning. It’s back to flurrying today and there was one stretch that was particularly beautiful as the snow was whipped around by the wind. It could have been a blizzard if it lasted for more than 10 minutes.

Snowing

That picture came out better than I expected, actually. I’ve had difficulty in the past getting snow to show up on film and be anything more than a gray fuzz in the air. I used flash with the “action shot” setting on my camera. Speaking of cameras, I need a new one. This one is going on four years old. And I guess film is the wrong word there since this is a digital camera, so what I would call it? Showing up on silicon?

Willow looking at the snow

Willow in the Window

Google Reader Shared Items

Posted: 16 December 2007 in Uncategorized
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Google Reader recently added some social networking features. You can now add your friends’ shared items to your feeds. Up til now I haven’t used the shared items feature since it didn’t really make sense to send people a link to my shared items and expect them to give a crap. Now it’s easier to subscribe to it and the decision to give a crap is left up to them when they read their feeds.

As Robert Scoble pointed out, there is one major flaw with the new feature: it clutters up the rest of your feeds. This is, of course, assuming you read your feeds in the “All feeds” folder. I usually don’t since I have a number of Tech News feeds that I’m not always interested in and often has duplicated information. I only read it when I have time. You can do the same with your friends shared items, so no big deal to me.

So why not check out my shared items?  As it happens, I have none at the moment.  But if you use Google Reader, feel free to add/invite me so we can view each others.  I’ll accept any invitations.