Atomic Playboy

As another attempt at decentralizing stuff I tend to do at more than one computer (I recently switched from Thunderbird to Gmail, despite having a very fine IMAP server available), I’ve now started using NewsGator to read most of my feeds.

I use FeedDemon on the laptop. I could easily install it on my stationary machine as well, but then we have the problem of feeds appearing as unread on both machines.

NewsGator has since bought FeedDemon, and will integrate them later — things I read in FeedDemon get flagged as read in NewsGator, and vice versa. I have a few issues with the NewsGator interface — a few changes could make it so much easier to use — but no major gripes.

Also, am I a geek when I put my compilation of World of Warcraft plugins in a Subversion repository so I can check them out someplace else?

Today I read my first feed in a long while. I’ve been clean otherwise. I just kicked the habit when I switched from Windows to Linux, mainly due to the fact that all available feed readers for Linux suck.

I thought I’d miss it, but I didn’t. I quit, cold turkey.

Now that I’m back on Windows again (mostly because I missed a couple of games) I re-installed FeedDemon and eyed a couple of the thousands of accumulated headlines, but I marked most of them as read without reading them. Not very interesting stuff to read.

There are a rare few sites that I always read, though. Expect me to sniff around and make a whole bunch of comments on your latest entries.

Also, it only took two weeks from reinstalling Movable Type to getting hit by comment spam.