Archive for February, 2005

RSS readers

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

I run a bunch of operating systems. For each one, I’ve had some trouble finding a nice simple RSS reader. Here are the best I’ve found so far:

  • Linux/X11: Liferea
  • MacOS X: NetNewsWire Lite - make sure you get the beta of version 2, which includes Atom support
  • Windows: Sharpreader is the only one we’ve tried so far. It’s ok, but I have a suspicion that Feedreader may be a bit simpler and neater.

Megapixel ratings and what they really mean

Friday, February 4th, 2005

Here are some images (all sample images from Steve’s Digicams) at various megapixel ratings, shrunk to 5% size, so you can see the practical different it makes:

2 mpix 3 mpix 4 mpix 5 mpix

Yakuza

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

Fascinating (and doubtless exaggerated) stories from several Westerners about their experiences with the yakuza in Japan on foogie.com, an adult industry forum - take a look.

Cameras for the Gothic Lolita set

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
“Gothic & Lolita Bible,” a Japanese fashion mag Sony Japan’s page for its special edition ‘Polaris Black’ Cybershot L1 digicam

I want one. The camera, that is.