d00dism

To be fair, I didn’t use NewsGator until this morning when I heard rumors of this move on the NetNewsWire mailing list. I’ve always been a Bloglines fan myself. However, the NNW/Bloglines synchonization left a lot to be desired, mostly due to deficiencies in Bloglines’s API.

Now that NewsGator has acquired NetNewsWire, it looks like I may finally get the cross-computer, cross-platform syncing I’ve been craving (much like what IMAP does for my email). It also looks like I’ll get access to FeedDemon, which was also acquired.

For those cases when I’m not at one of my Macs or my work PC, I’ll be able to get my news through a web interface which upon cursory examination looks very similar to Bloglines. All in all, it looks like a terrific move and I’m looking forward to the next version of NNW.

I’ve always wanted to brew my own beer. Well, I have at least as long I made beer my drink of choice. Lately, I’ve been on a real wine kick, but when I saw a beer brewing kit for $20.

It includes everything you need, even bottles, which usually one has to recycle from other beers they’ve consumed in a drunken marathon (I imagine). You’ll need to add $6.95 for shipping, but considering how low the price is, that’s acceptable. It’s also possible to get additional beer variety canisters from the manufacturer (with a name like Mr. Beer, you know it must be good), should you decide that your beer didn’t taste like ass.

Cheers.