Oy. 2 weeks ago I got a pair of nice rollerblades at a garage sale for $5. I've used them like 3 times so far.

I often forget that Memorial Day was intended for us to remember those who fought, and those who died, for this country in war.

I've changed the search box (top right corner of this page) to use the weblog search feature.

Thanks to Weird Al, I'm in my happy place, listening to Al doing the Backstreet Boys singing about EBay, Eminem rhyming about TV, and Avril Levine crooning over cheese pizza, kissing cousins, and roller coasters...

O'Reilly's Derrick Story interviews Brent Simmons.

I've made some changes to the site here - I've had feedback from some people that the discussion group view was a bit intimidating, so I've implemented a Radio-comments style comments interface.

Dave has some sort of weblog search running on Scripting News that uses Google.

Hm, ok, this is the second try. I added the redirect when posting a new thread trick to this form, so hopefully after posting it will return to the comments page.

I wanna be like Brent. All I need now is time and talent. smile

The Pope recently beatified Marco D'Aviano, a 17th century monk who gave the world cappuccino. W00t!

The Stephen Chow Hong Kong action-comedy Shaolin Soccer looks absolutely hysterical. Coming to the states in August. Whee! "When you can kick an egg without breaking it, you will be ready to join the team!"

Whimper. Will someone please Reload my brain? I think it broke. Wow.

Jodi picked up a yummy Gorgonzola/Pear Pizza at Trader Joe's. Yay!

Jodi and I now have tickets to the movie of the year. Yay!!

Michael Clarke posted (it's an old post, but I just found his weblog) [some mildly tortured self-analytical thoughts](http://llareggolb.blogspot.com/2003_04_01_llareggolb_archive.htmlNone[#200208624](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/200208624)) about being a PR flack and what happens when PR and Blogging collide...

Heh. New blog to read: I Love Me, vol. I. Pointed out to me by Bill, who just got his first non-Google, non-Monkinetic referral from them. smile.

Interesting discussion going on about RSS. Yes, again. Here's Ben Trott talking about a profile for RSS specifically for weblogs. The only thing he includes that I wouldn't is trackback as a requirement.

Those Canadians sure know their comedy.

Dave Hyatt, beloved of Safari-using geeks everywhere, has had his two blogs redesigned. Very nice!!

Nate is building a robot out of LEGO and is documenting the process. His writing style is really clever, IMO.