Moved everything over to a new laptop tonight. All of my stories got their dates reset when the files got copied over. Thanks a lot, Radio.

Check out McGee’s list of RSS subscriptions. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen such a lengthy blogroll but I am continually amazed at the ability some people have to simply manage subscription lists this voluminous let alone stay on top of the posts. I’d need my own local search engine like Autonomy used to do with Kenjin.

Rev. Hallman read this a few weeks ago and it really struck me. William Henry Channing was William Ellery Channing’s nephew, BTW.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common–this is my symphony. — William Henry Channing

Scientists Meditate on Happiness. Buddhism and science come together as the Dalai Lama looks for a way to relieve the world’s suffering. Turns out researchers think they can learn a lot from monks. Kim Zetter reports from Boston. [Wired News]

Scott Rosenberg: “If u cn rd ths msg u r jst lke vryne lse!”

Reading slowly is a dying art. As our world pushes us inevitably towards more speedy skimming of information blasting at us through a dozen different protocols, we scan more than we read.

[Scripting News]

The “speedy skimming” problem only gets worse as the addiction to news feeds grows.

MIT’s Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT’s new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. [Wired News]

Wireless links I send to friends and colleagues after they get their new wifi gear setup…

http://www.wardriving.com/
http://www.netstumbler.com/
http://www.wifinder.com/

If you ever need to create symbolic links on Windows like you can with the “ln” command on Unix, you can download and use a piece of freeware called Junction. It works great.

Microsoft’s fixpack SP1a does not include the Java virtual machine. But, you can download it here.

Our current version of Lotus Domino uses applets that will not run with Sun’s 1.4.1 JRE. So, after reinstalling my OS after the hard drive crash, I had to hunt for the Microsoft virtual machine link.

Another cool geek shirt from Think Geek but what’s with the O’Reilly plug on the back? Am I missing something?