The Arcane and the Obvious

In the fine tradition of three-syllable automotive publication names like Auto Week, Motor Trend, and Road and Track, there is now a new media publication called Autoblog. It's got lots of new news about cars. Fancy that.

I finally found a good RSS reader for my Pocket PC. It's RSS Sync.

I love it because it's much faster than using AvantGo (when syncing). But, unlike AvantGo, the entries are truncated. I wish I had control over that one aspect, since the reason I use a pocket pc tool is to read offline and it's not possible to follow a link to the website. The advantage over AvantGo is that you get just the content.

It requires Windows Mobile 2003 and Activesync 3.7.

Although eHomeUpgrade is not updated as frequently as some of the sites I read relentlessly, I do hit this one once a day now. I enjoy the technology reviewed there.

Techdirt, to be exact. Thank you, Michael. He says it's "more useful for straight industry news with much less of the sychophant intolerance for anything not FOSS."

I believe him.

Sommer and I were not affected. My greatest wish to you dear reader is that you were not affected either.

See the Pioneer Press or StarTribune for local updates.

Under the circumstances, it looks like cell service has been cut off in favor or emergency services. I do not know if we will be reachable by telephone, but email and instant messaging work just fine.

I'm not trying to make this all about me, just trying to communicate when some normal channels are not available.