Sat, 07 Oct 2006
How to Waste a Day
I've been quite busy with school and work lately, so I was due for a day of unproductiveness. Here's how I wasted a nice Saturday:
Switch from Bloglines to Google Reader - After switching from straw to Bloglines a few months ago, I've tentatively switched to Google Reader as of today. One particularly nice feature is that it only marks posts as read when you've actually viewed them, rather than when you view the feed. It's also easy to create a link blog because you can share posts with a keystroke.
Fix Northern Trust Feed - I fixed my screen-scraped rss
feed of Northern
Trust research reports, which has been broken since around May I think,
when they updated their site.
Start Learning Lisp; Give up - I started reading Peter Seibel's book, Practical Common Lisp online, which
in turn, required that I start learning emacs. I got through about a chapter
and a half of the lisp book, and about half of the emacs tutorial before
deciding it wasn't worth the effort today.
Touch Base with the Housing Bubble - If you haven't heard, housing is
past the peak, and heading down.
I caught up on Mish's
blog, where the deflationary (rather than hyperinflationary) recession
looms large. And if you haven't met Casey
Serin yet, he's a 24 year-old facing forclosure five houses with $2 million
in mortgage debt. Bummer.
