I added the MeeboMe widget to my blog a week ago based on this post by Charlie.  I’m constantly trying to find new ways to open up dialogue with my readers, so I thought this would be a good solution.  It turns out that Charlie’s analysis nailed it: great concept, but the IMs need to [...]

I decided to implement my blogroll using Grazr. If you don’t know what Grazr is, it’s essentially a feed reader widget that can be embedded in HTML. Just play with my blogroll for 5 minutes, and you’ll understand what Grazr can do.
Most of my readers are reading via RSS, so this change means nothing to [...]

The skeptic of Dead2.0, always being a contrarian, pointed out that RSS has only achieved 2% adoption… furthermore, only 11% of the public even knows what RSS is (The original source of these statistics is emarketer.com’s article called Really Seldom Syndication). His main argument is everyone would be better off is RSS vanished behind [...]

So, I sat down to read a few articles in bloglines last night; just 3 or 4 and then I was going to quit.  I have about 400 unread items in my VC folder, so I went to click on the little plus sign next to the folder to expand it out and choose a blog I like.  I [...]

Anyone else out there with a dell laptop with a touchpoint input device (the little nub in the center of the keyboard) can probably commiserate and celebrate with me.  I had been experiencing severe mouse drift on my Inspiron 8100 for about a year now.  As long as I have my USB mouse plugged-in it’s [...]

This alarm clock is awesomely bad.
From the website:
Clocky™ (patent pending) is an alarm clock that runs away and hides if you don't get out of bed on time. The alarm sounds, you press the snooze, and Clocky will roll off of the bedside table, fall to the floor, and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects [...]