i checked out google reader again… and made the switch from the sage firefox extension.

i’ll still keep sage installed , but i really like using google reader now for rss feeds.

i’m finding it very handy to use firefox for instant messaging (with all the services), email, rss feeds. i don’t use meebo that much at home, but when it’s aways an option available to me.

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i’m a big fan of google. i’ve bought into most of the google applications. there’s a few i don’t use because i don’t like them. google desktop. google rss feeds. last time i used them i found them to cumbersome to use, but i’ll check them out again after i’ve posted this. i think google notebook has potential. it’s not there yet.

i’ve decided not put in a link of anything easily found in google. only the more obscure stuff. just about every link i’ve been to i can find on google.

if i can force even one reader of my blog to use google that’s potentially one less person i might have to blog about later…

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a couple of months ago i bought and ipod nano. i still like the iriver mp3 player, but anybody who owns one knows that the interface is horrendous to use. because i only had the 256 meg model i didn’t do a lot of mp3  transfers  with it. my biggest use was listening to the radio with the built in fm tuner. the  nano made it more convenient to transfer and navigate.

up to a month or so ago i’d completely avoided podcasts. i have to read  enough idiot content on the weeb, i didn’t want to hear it also.  patrick norton of dltv fame mentioned the TWIT podcast. twit is hosted by  leo laporte who used to host the sceensavers and still does call for help. i’ve never watched call for help as it was mainly  clueless windows users who got themselves into trouble or for some reason didn’t know about or couldn’t find google.

anyway, i downloaded a few ep’s of twit and i was hooked, both on the show and with podcasting in general.  i found it was too time consuming to watch dltv and cranky geeks, so i started listening to the audio  only podcast of those shows. i’ve since added  security now. i’m behind on all of them, taking me a while to catch up but i’m enjoying them a lot.

i’m not likely to start my own podcast. not really in my personality, and i know bandwidth could become an issue.

anyway, if you miss the old screensavers you can get the same thing with twit and dltv, and if miss the old techtv show silicon spin you can get the same thing with cranky geeks.

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i had a chance to install kubuntu the other day. i’m not really a fan of kde, but i wanted an ubuntu install with kde.

kubuntu suffers from the same problem that all debian distros suffer from. first off the  latest kubuntu itself was out of date. i have yet to install any debian based distro that  didn’t have to pull down  more updates after the install.

then of course there is the <b>stoopid</b> debian philosophy that older buggier software is more stable.

i finally had to wipe the kubuntu install because i couldn’t compile vim with gui support. i just couldn’t seem to pull down enough libs for the configure to find what it needed. if i want to do that much work with linux i’ll just  work up  an LFS.

in contrast to that, i installed xubuntu, and found it much easier to work with. i’ll keep with that to see how it goes.

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