My page pings <a href="http://www.weblogs.com">weblogs.com</a> when it's updated.  I'll discover the ramifications of that some other time.  I downloaded a freeware RSS feed reader called <a href="http://ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/">NetNewsWire Lite</a> for the Mac at the suggestion of <a href="http://www.whatdoiknow.org">Todd Dominey</a>, and I may be building my own RSS feed soon.

Uncle Ted invited me out to lunch yesterday, and we had a pleasant conversation about China and job/schooling opportunities available to me.  He mentioned that even a public school would be willing to hire an uncredentialed teacher by providing them with an emergency credential.  It would be nice to make a teacher-sized salary for a year, but it would be a lot of work.  I haven't heard back from Borders yet.

Kartik and I hung out last night at the Olde Ship in Fullerton.  He's going to Northwestern medical school in Chicago, which is very cool.  I got updates on several Class of '97 people, and we spent the requisite time bashing Brea for, as he aptly put it, having no culture.

I wanted to get the <a href="http://xsh.sourceforge.net/">XSH shell</a>, an <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>-editing shell and perl module, working on the iBook but I'm still too much of an MacOS X newb to figure it out.  You can find me down in the Operating Systems section of Tower Bookstore.  (link is courtesy of <a href="http://www.sweetcode.org">Sweetcode</a>)