a crank’s progress

I have accumulated a lot of feeds in NetNewsWire but I notice that a lot of them go unread. It would be nice, I thought just now, if NNW could keep track of what feeds get clicked on and/or read and do some housekeeping with the ones that don’t hold even my attention. Perhaps [...]

I stumbled onto this site thanks to Kottke, and it made me lust terribly for a pinhole camera of my own. This looks like a great way to get into large format photography without a lot of expense. There’s something eerie about how time — the long exposures — makes people invisible.
I also found [...]

Health insurance and the paradox of choice:
Health insurance and the paradox of choice
It’s that time of year again, when we get to change health
care plans. There’s nothing like spending
a day trying to figure out whether a 90/70 PPO plan with
a $500 deductible and 80% home health care is better
than a 90/70 Managed POS plan with [...]

My Back Pages / Byrds /
We Were Both Wrong / Dave Edmunds / Repeat When Necessary
I Hope You’re Happy Now / Elvis Costello / The Very Best Of Elvis Costello (Disc 2)
Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) / Robyn Hitchcock / Globe of Frogs
Point Of No Return / Elvis Costello / Spike Bonus Disc
Celebrate / Simple [...]

1.5 did too, but this is a different problem.
Ado (the developer of ecto) has the fix here.
Now we’ll see if they have fixed trackbacks yet.

Some days I wonder if the right wing isn’t dissatisfied with re-fighting Vietnam over and over again but also wants to relive the Watergate years.
So be it.