Handwritten Clock
Thursday, December 9th, 2004Here’s a damned cool clock (requires Flash).
Here’s a damned cool clock (requires Flash).
Here’s a scary little news story: Rat Brain Flies Jet, from The Register.
You know, there’ve been several occassions on which I’d have really loved to have left a comment on Hayley’s LiveJournal, but she’s set it so that only people she’s listed as “friends” can post comments to it, and she hasn’t listed anybody as friends!
But hey; now that I’ve mentioned this on my blog, everybody who knows us both will pester her until she fixes it. Winnage.
Checking my GMail account this morning, I noticed an unusual icon in the lower-right corner of the browser window:

It turns out that Google’s GMail service seems to be testing an ATOM feed - a kind of syndication feed (similar to those used by weblogs and news sites - see Scatmania’s ATOM feed) that can be ’subscribed’ to from your desktop computer.
Right now, the GMail feed looks pretty bare:

Nonetheless, this is an interesting turn of events - didn’t Google recently say that no other automated mail checking tools were to be used except for their own GMail Notifier (sorry, can’t find a news story to link)? But now it looks like they’re working on developing a format by which anybody can ’subscribe’ to their own inbox (although probably only using a web browser - the non-browser-based XML readers seem to have difficulty with cookies, which are likely to be required.
It’s all interesting.