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Man, I totally missed the announcement that Netscape.com now supports OpenID. This is pretty great -- Netscape is probably the biggest OpenID consumer on the Web, after Technorati. And Technorati only uses OpenID for a few limited purposes.

Good news for Netscape.com and for OpenID.

tags: openid netscape consumer

I just finished watching The Science of Sleep. I liked the animation, and the writing -- the ambiguity of the sleeping state and the waking state. And I like Gael García Bernal. But I also realized that films about people on the brink of mental illness are really distressing for me.

Otherwise, it was a good movie.

tags: science of sleep film

I've been finding the Nokia N800 really difficult to use as a mobile computer -- or, rather, as a mobile toy. I haven't been getting as good WiFi coverage with it as I'd like, when taking it around, so it's not that fun to play with. I took it to the bank so I'd have something to do while waiting in line, and I couldn't get a network connection.

So yesterday I imported my OPML feed from Sage into the RSS reader on the N800. I figured that even without connectivity I'd have something to read on the computer. But my feeds (about 20-30; is that a lot?) slowed down the N800 to a crawl. When I rebooted the machine, it got in the same boot loop it had problems with before, and wouldn't start.

I had to re-flash the hard drive again, but luckily this time around I had a recent backup. Unluckily, it doesn't seem to want to restore the backup. It's frustrating.

tags: n800 opml boot

So, there's not one but two April Fools Day articles on Wikitravel. Last year, we had an excellent guide to San Serriffe posted, but I think this year's joke guides to Earth (for aliens) and Hell (for everyone) are pretty good, too.

tags: april fools day wikitravel

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