Archive for December, 2005
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23 Dec 2005
I think I'm in love with Jimmy Carter. I've started reading his most recent book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, and I'm totally taken with how improbable he is. Southern-raised, farmer, born-again evangelical Christian, yet he's a liberal Democrat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. I yearn for a president like that.
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20 Dec 2005
I don't get the newspaper, and I don't watch TV news programs; instead, I get almost all of my news via the Internet and NPR. The problem with this is that I don't often get a chance to see what places or people in the news look like.
For me, Flickr is a great way to follow current news events visually. Today, I'm keeping an eye on photos tagged with strike and the NYC group pool.
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8 Dec 2005
I was inspired yesterday to work on a new Greasemonkey script. Reminded about Jesse Ruderman's Bash.org Instant Voting script, I made a similar script for flagging posts and comments on Metafilter. Metafilter Asynchronous Flagging allows you to flag posts and comments without having to go through the two interstitial pages and losing your line of thought in the thread.
(I had to flag one of my own comments approximately thirty times while I was testing it. I wonder what Mathowie thought about that.)
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1 Dec 2005
Late last year, I finally started requesting inter-library book loans regularly. As I started reading more (because it was now simple and free), my list actually got longer, so I started writing it down. One unexpected advantage to this is that I can go back and look at the books I've enjoyed (or not) over the last year. I'm not an especially prolific reader, but I've surprised myself with the amount that I've actually had time to get through.