Our offer was accepted on our new home! We move in on the 7th of November. The house is 1 1/2 stories on about an acre of land. We’re really excited and can’t wait to invite our friends and family over to visit. We’ve got great plans for this home and it will be a great place to raise Kari.
Here’s some pictures:
I’ve been an avid user of Ranchero NewsGator’s NetNewsWire RSS (Lite) reader. It’s a great app and it has a huge user base. However, as of this evening that has all changed. I’ve found a kick butt replacement that’s a million times better. It’s called Vienna.
Vienna is an open source aggregator that has some cool features.
First, it allows me to archive feeds. This was one of the features lacking in NNW Lite. Feeds would fall off into the void way too quickly. Now I can horde my information FOREVER.
Second, I like the UI more so than NNW. It looks like an iApp. NNW looked very ancient, in a 10.2 vs 10.4 Finder kinda way.
Smart Folders. Holy Cow. I can now create folders with keywords like “silly string” and “brown toed shoes” and any articles that contain those phrases will instantly appear in my silly string and brown toed shoes folder*
Pretty sweet deal.
If you’re a Mac user and you’re looking for a robust and well put together RSS reader, look no further than Vienna. It’s open source (ergo free), has a great feature set, well thought out UI and is capable of importing your subscriptions from NNW. Highly recommended!
*I had to think of something I’d want to filter. Silly string and brown toed shoes were the first things to come to my mind. Kids, don’t blog late.
I nuked the dir that contained the images that were in all my previous posts. Unless my host has some magical backup, they’re gone. So for all my old posts you’re just going to have to close your eyes and imagine what I was talking about.
Who let me on the internet?
Buyers beware!
My father received this rather fishy email from an ebay user wanting to purchase his motorcycle we posted on ebay for him. The weird thing is that my email address is the main contact, as my father does not have an ebay account. We did, however, put his email address in the ebay listing, in hopes that potential buyers would contact him with questions.
“I’m hiding my email for privacy, you can reply using the yellow button.”
Pfffft!
I start a new job here at SLU on August 21st. More details soon.