For quite a while I’ve been looking around for a good feed reader. I was using the one that is built into Opera, but the slow-down while it updated the feeds every so often bugged me when I was busy looking at web pages at the same time. Sadly this is just one of the problems with Opera lately. I’m using Firefox much more these days.

I tried quite a few RSS programs then, finally, found the humorously named RSS Bandit. It’s open source (free).

I like the way it presents the feeds and file enclosures and it has a nice integrated, tabbed, web browser.

Almost a third of Americans (30%) can’t remember what year 9/11 happened…

They should have called it 9112001. But, if they had, 30% of Americans would have thought it happened in Beverly Hills :-D

Dear Rocketboom…

Horribly distorted sound (again). Note the flattened-out peaks where the level has exceeded 0dB.

Correct sound recording level…

Why bother producing a ‘high-definition’ version of the show when the audio is painful to listen to?

Currently I’m in a little village near the England/Scotland border.

At 6am on Friday morning there seemed to be a lot of bird noise outside the window. I looked out and saw a crowd of sparrows and a male great spotted woodpecker (I know that because I looked it up on the RSPB website)

The first woodpecker I’ve seen in real-life. I was rather excited. The window has that old-fashioned glass, which is why the video is a bit blurred.