Archive for February, 2005

RSS Feed Overload!!

482 headlines to skim!!

Today was a busy day for me. I didnt get to do my usual reading before work and at lunch. Around 9pm when finally got home I had 482 articles to skim through. Sheesh! I need to increase my reading speed some how. It was actually worse before I trimmed my site list. Many of the articles were duplicates or similar. I read around 30 of the full articles. Much of it is tech news, software updates, news, blogs, and other sites of interest that provide an RSS feed.

Not sure what RSS is? It stands for Really Simple Syndication. It was designed for sharing headlines and other web content. Its a really fantastic way of speeding up your information gathering. Rather than go to dozens of websites to check for new content, just have the RSS reader do it for you. I could link a few sites on the topic but I’ll leave that for another post perhaps.

EDIT: RSS also happens to be my initials and the name of my this fancy new blog. :-)

Interesting Words Vol. 3

Here are the definitions of some of the words I use on my blog. I decided to use these words as they were different from what you might expect to see. Hopefully I haven’t completely confused my readers with this verbiage.

Squib - a short humorous or satiric writing or speech
substituted this for “comments”

Equipage - A collection of small articles for personal use.
gadgets, cars, equipent

Euphonies - Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words
Music or music related

Simulacrum - An image or representation.
Photographs and Images

Cinematics - I cant find a definition that relates to movies but the thesaurus brought this up when I punched in “movie”. It’s pretty straight forward.

Brainwork - Intellectual activity
General thoughts and ideas