David Handy 

OK. Bye.

Bitty Browser manual 

It's using my piano players reading list too. Dan's used it as an example for a while now in Optimal, I suppose because it has podcast feeds mixed with blog feeds and enclosures and comments on the feeds. Optiminal is way way cooler when it comes to audio because of the sweet little player built in.

Tricky 

Looks like Tom had a breakthrough on the comments. Maybe I will try Haloscan for comments, or if we're not going to have comments right on the blog, ever or anytime soon, maybe I'll have mine go to a message board like that new one I'm trying out. Let me know if you'd like me to set up a forum for your comments. Each board has its own RSS feed, so a reading list of all the boards' feeds could make something like mixed interaction salad I keep dreaming of. For the future it seems like SSE might be a good solution for comments here. Wasn't Matt working on something like that?

See, now, what ol' Dave might be thinking (besides "Blog commenting isn't important to me") is "Let's see what happens if they don't have comments and they really want them." Chances are things could get more creative than if he just stuck in some former Userland method of handling comments.

Virtual parties 

Kosso mentioned an event at the virtual Curry Castle in Second Life, was it over the weekend? Then I noticed this On10 party a couple weeks ago. What's next? Celebrity chat events? Press conferences? Quarterly earnings statement conference calls? First aid training? Possibilities are mindboggling.

I think I'm going to have to check out Second Life after all. I just know I'm going to be sorry, but I feel like it's a cultural phenomenon I need to understand. Funny, my kids have no idea what it is. Little guy told me Sunday there was a virtual funeral on his WoW server to honor the real death of a real player. A gang of newbies didn't understand what it was and attacked them.

This sounds like a really dumb question, but I don't have to fight to play Second Life, do I? Do I have to even compete to enjoy the experience?

OPMLsearch.com 

I used to rely on opmlsearch.com to find things in my blog, but it doesn't seem to be indexed anymore. If it was, wouldn't this query return something? I guess I could search my blog directory on my hard drive. (Hey, that might be a nice thing to be linked from a menu item within the OPML editor!) I was looking for a post explaining why I'm afraid of trying Second Life. Since I can't find it, I'll just tell you: I have I feeling I'd like it and I know I can get obsessive about things and I'm afraid I'll be drawn in.