Category: Weblogs

Muddy River has some “photos”:http://muddyriver.typepad.com/hearth/2004/04/two_more_from_o.html, including some “ocean scenes”:http://muddyriver.typepad.com/hearth/2004/04/ocean_city.html of a recent trip to Ocean City Maryland. This was a favorite family vacation spot when I was a child, though later I started going to Rehobeth Beach, Delaware instead.

This morning, I made some minor changes to my weblog, including a “Squidfingers”:http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/ inspired background that I created with “The Gimp”:http://www.gimp.org/.

I’ve been reading the weblog, Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools, for a while now. The weblog reminds me a lot of the Whole Earth Catalog in its heyday, both in its choice of subject matter and in its tone. One of the items today was a review of a pruning saw. We still have the one I used to carry on trail rides back in Maryland. We rode in heavily wooded areas, and there were always tree branches drooping hazardously over the bridle trails. I used the pruning saw from the back of the remarkably phlegmatic horses.

Want to take a ski trip without the cost and cold? Visit Ed Book’s journal starting with February 6th, 2004.

Today, “Emese’s Photo Blog”:http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/blog/ features Cliffs by the Cabrillo National Monument.

Photojunkie Zine : The Best of 2003 Photoblogs has a lot of links to cool photos and the weblogs that originally published them.

Sacred Ordinary writes about seeing the Green Flash. I’ve never been near the ocean enough to have much chance to see it, so I am very envious. I did see an “icebow”:http://www.bluetail.com/~joe/misc/icebow.html one morning, though.

The Shifted Librarian has a short tutorial on how to get started using RSS feeds. She recommends “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com, which I have been using for three months.

Via today’s “Langa List”:http://www.langa.com I discovered the Daily Rotation which acts as a headline aggregator for a variety of technical magazines and weblogs. It has some limited customizing features (based on cookies) but does not require a userid.

I’ve just installed MT-Blacklist from Jay Allen of The Daily Journey. I had been waiting until it had been tested a bit more, but two comments linking to pornographic sites in an hour changed my mind. The plugin was very easy to install and configure, as stated in the documentation.