self-image

I've edited my userinfo slightly, to reflect that I'm no longer surprised to be working out regularly; it took a while for me to really get used to it, but at some point I do.

[There's other stuff about self-perception and overlooking things, but I need to think about that a bit more before I write it up.]

self-image

I've edited my userinfo slightly, to reflect that I'm no longer surprised to be working out regularly; it took a while for me to really get used to it, but at some point I do.

[There's other stuff about self-perception and overlooking things, but I need to think about that a bit more before I write it up.]

Spokeo: is this still in beta? (site review)

Spokeo is, as far as I can tell, an attempt to aggregate a variety of social networking sites, including Myspace, Xanga, and Flickr, and lots of RSS feeds. Note that LiveJournal isn't one of the choices, though it let me load an RSS feed from someone's LiveJournal, and showed me their default userpic when I'd done so.

It describes itself as being part of Web2.0; I hope the lack of any sort of FAQs or how-tos isn't typical of Web 2.0. Looking at the "featured users" page got me a perfectly nice BBC News RSS feed, which would probably be more appealing if I didn't have the BC headlines as one of the clickable choices at the top of Firefox.

There seems to be a lot of content in what's either Chinese or Japanese; someone who can read those languages might have more fun here. At the moment, though, it looks like a solution in search of a problem: I don't want to read all my Web stuff on one site, and a lot of why people use things like LJ and MySpace is to have some control over who can see their content.

(If you want to check it out, they're at www.spokeo.com, and will ask for an email address to register.)

Spokeo: is this still in beta? (site review)

Spokeo is, as far as I can tell, an attempt to aggregate a variety of social networking sites, including Myspace, Xanga, and Flickr, and lots of RSS feeds. Note that LiveJournal isn't one of the choices, though it let me load an RSS feed from someone's LiveJournal, and showed me their default userpic when I'd done so.

It describes itself as being part of Web2.0; I hope the lack of any sort of FAQs or how-tos isn't typical of Web 2.0. Looking at the "featured users" page got me a perfectly nice BBC News RSS feed, which would probably be more appealing if I didn't have the BC headlines as one of the clickable choices at the top of Firefox.

There seems to be a lot of content in what's either Chinese or Japanese; someone who can read those languages might have more fun here. At the moment, though, it looks like a solution in search of a problem: I don't want to read all my Web stuff on one site, and a lot of why people use things like LJ and MySpace is to have some control over who can see their content.

(If you want to check it out, they're at www.spokeo.com, and will ask for an email address to register.)

Not a soy milk fan

I'm trying doing without dairy for a few days. Mostly this means eating cold meat or fish for breakfast, instead of yogurt, and having tea with sugar instead of milk and sugar (and a little cool water to avoid burning my mouth). But I bought some soy milk, and just tried making hot chocolate with it.

I poured it down the sink after about three sips. Ah, well. There's plenty of other chocolate in the house.

Not a soy milk fan

I'm trying doing without dairy for a few days. Mostly this means eating cold meat or fish for breakfast, instead of yogurt, and having tea with sugar instead of milk and sugar (and a little cool water to avoid burning my mouth). But I bought some soy milk, and just tried making hot chocolate with it.

I poured it down the sink after about three sips. Ah, well. There's plenty of other chocolate in the house.