Wishlist: Permalinks to rendered items within the desktop web site. Whenever I want to link to myself, I usually wind up going to my web site to do it. Titled Entries + Shortcuts are one potential solution, but I'd rather have permalinks displayed with the "Edit" button, like so:

4:47:00 PM | Comments:

Downloaded Feedreader today. My first impression is that it is pretty basic, decent for RSS reading but useless for blogging. It does not generate titles for non-titled items, which makes it terrible for reading my own feed.

Suppose that I'll check out Headline Viewer and AmphetaDesk later this weekend. Vista is too over-reaching for me (unified IM, SMS, Blogging, and RSS). Anything else out there that is a dedicated RSS reader for Windows?

4:32:38 PM | Comments:

OQO Follow-up: The Register has a more technical article on the OQO.

4:13:33 PM | Comments:

Did you know: Mozilla has pop-up busting features under Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Windows.

Where is the user-oriented version of Mozilla.org? Mozilla will never achieve greatness if they continue marketing solely to web designers and developers while ignoring web surfers. Mozilla has compelling features for non-techies, but Mozilla.org isn't even trying to explain what they are and why they are important.

A non-techy is going to look at Mozilla.org, perhaps follow a link or two, realize that they are in over their heads and promptly leave.

3:48:28 PM | Comments:

802.11b at 22mbps from US Robotics. Anyone remember HST?

3:01:55 PM | Comments:

via The Shifted Librarian:

"Your Blog Here: Send us your web log, and we may consider it for Foxnews.com's Blog of the Week. Some Guidelines: We don't want to hear about your cat or your favorite foods...

Yeah, because Fox has such high standards...

4:44:54 AM | Comments:

via Hack the Planet: Engineers join push for automotive black boxes

In the long run, however, they hope to use automated techniques to transmit data from the black boxes to the Internet via an automotive telematics system.

When black boxes are mandated on new cars, I will cease to buy new cars. From there it won't be a leap to automatically mail you a ticket whenever you speed, fail to come to a complete halt at a stop sign, etc.

The only automotive technology I want is an independent rear suspension and electronic fuel injection.

4:39:41 AM | Comments:

GPRS Traffic Counter for Pocket PC [PocketPCWire]

Clueless company alert: web site re-directs deep-links, and uses 12px Tahoma. Somebody call the web design police...

I am close to starting an anti-Tahoma weblog.

3:42:53 AM | Comments:

Review: Creative Labs Video Blaster - Digital VCR. Overall not very good. I've been keeping my eye on this product, it came from nowhere without fanfare (or marketing). There are very few consumer-level video tuner/capture boards with hardware MPEG encoding, and none approach Creative's $99 price level.

Right now I use a Hauppauge WinTV PVR, which retails for $250. The software is marginal, but it has been very dependable since I switched from W2K to XP Pro. It's clame to fame is that Hauppauge offers a downloadable SDK that works with Visual Basic.

3:13:41 AM | Comments: