I just finished up giving a presentation to our staff about the practical uses of rss. Returning to my desk I encounter this on Walsh’s flickr stream:

The comments include this, from Han N.:
Those colors are amazing! Did you know that an octopus can make itself like a coconut as a defense mechanism? I always thought [...]

Mistaking the time, date, and, indeed, month of a dentist appointment this morning, I, instead enjoyed brunch with some close friends, Kate and Alex with whom I spend far too little time. The course of conversation led, as many with me do, to the internet and developments with it. Alex’s website is an [...]

I live in a coding netherworld. Given instructions, I can write code. Given code, I can usually happily change it to meet my needs. I understand most languages, intellectually, but I do not speak them. So when I want to do something, know it can be done but don’t know [...]