Monday, August 2, 2004

Maybe I just know really anti-social people?

One thing I've never quite understood is people who spend Friday and/or Saturday nights doing things like going to the cinema - basically anything which makes it hard/impossible to talk to someone else. Now sometimes, people want to see something that is a one-off. A concert, say, or a single showing of some obscure or old film. But for many of us, Friday and Saturday night are the only evenings we can afford the time to go to parties/pubs. People who want to spend that precious time just "going to the cinema" seem odd to me. Why not do that Sunday afternoon, or Tuesday evening, and spend Saturday night talking to friends?

Friday night was the opposite of this - round to Duncan and Ruth's for pizza, wine, and the new Battlestar Gallactica on DVD. Conversation flowed happily, and the new series is pretty good. Enough nods to the original to show respect, but updated nicely.

Tonight, Claire is cooking a Greek(ish) meze for tomorrow (when we have Lewis dropping by) while I'm getting to grips with a new cookery mailing list. I have a whole pile of work I should be doing, but frankly I'm too tired and trying to put it off till tomorrow. (Hence the longish post...)

I've also been trying to track down a good desktop aggregator for RSS feeds. So far I've been playing with Sharp Reader. Unfortunately it's a bit buggy (being built on top of .net so no surprise there) and I don't really like the way it works. Any suggestions much appreciated.

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3 comments so far.

Kai [e] wrote :

There's feedreader (www.feedreader.net) and Intravnews, a plugin for outlook (http://www.intravnews.com). There are ones you can 'attach' to Mozilla too, but I've never played with them. FR and the one I use on my outlook are stable though, moreso FR.

07:20 am, 03/08/2004

Graham [e] wrote :

Unfortunately I use neither outlook nor mozilla, so plug-ins for either aren't much use. Feedreader seems to do everything through a website, and apparently only one site at a time, which seems less than ideal to me. Thanks for the suggestions, though.

07:28 am, 03/08/2004

Nick B wrote :

I get my RSS feeds via the Desktop Sidebar (www.desktopsidebar.com), which has a hefty footprint in memory but can do all kinds of good things (live email updates, weather forecasts, resource meters, etc.).

08:26 pm, 03/08/2004