Back in the day we used to call this a ".plan file".

My mother uses "Thanks," in her auto sig, with a pretty font, which all looks really dumb at the bottom of all the mass-forwards she sends me.

I use "Regards," for just about every long or formal email; "TIA" or nothing for more familiar emails.

So Steve dug up some cash out of his rectum to keep himself self-supported while he turned a self-aggrandizing bullshit portal into a money-maker. Hey Steve, I don't know where you got your startup capital from, but the rest of us have to get it from a real job.

Y'know, ever since Linux started gaining respect in the corporate community, and more people have looked at open-source software, OSS and Linux have been getting sort of bloated. This is too bad, because Linux/OSS would otherwise be great choices for thrifty/retro-computing — you know, making use of that old $300 PII…

I think the reason I wasn't enamored with Bloglines, and in fact my main beef with pretty much all aggregators in existence, is that there is no way to just show all your feeds in a single chronological sequence. Instead, they are all segregated, and you have to check each one individually, and with no context between…