16 interesting RSS feeds - What I choose to read about!

There are many news readers available and I happen to use a Firefox extension Wizz RSS which I have found works well for me. Following my last blog, about two minutes ago, it occurred to me to blog about the feeds I choose to follow that enhance my internet life.
There are quite a few, many you will already know, others you may not have come across and they are:

• O'Reilly Radar - feed://radar.oreilly.com/feed
  
• Slashdot - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
  
• CNET news.com - http://www.news.com/2547-1_3-0-20.xml
  
• Monkeybites - http://feeds.wired.com/MonkeyBites
  
• eHub - http://feeds.feedburner.com/eHub
  
• redemption in a blog - http://feeds.feedburner.com/riab
  
• Ted - http://www.ted.com/talks/rss
  
• Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-rss.php
  
• Techmeme - http://techmeme.com/index.xml
  
• AustralianIt.com.au | It News Top Stories - http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/ausit_itnews_topstories_367.xml
  
• Trickspedia - http://www.trickspedia.com/feed/
  
• Gizmodo Australia - http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/GizmodoAustraliaPartial
  
• ItWire - Technology Option - http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_rd_rss&id=5
• News | ZDNet.com.au - http://www.zdnet.com.au/feeds/rss/?tag=latest_news
  
• Ajaxonomy - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ajaxonomy
  
• and of course the latest addition Coding Horror - http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror
  

A great Blogging Firefox extension!

One of the many great things about Firefox is the extensions.




Today on the recommendation of an article in the current issue of the Linux Format magazine I added 5 more to the 6 I have already installed!

Fast Video Download - downloads embedded video from sites like YouTube (replacing Ook video Ook!)

Nightly Tester Tools - A test tool for extension compatability

Wizz RSS News Reader - Obviously a news reader

Greasemonkey - A website redesign tool using javascript which I have installed for a second time to explore the possibilities of a bit further.

Scribefire (used to be called Performancing) - A great blogging editor.

I used Scribefire to create this post.

powered by performancing firefox

I'm crook - Godamnit! and Firefox Extensions!

Yep it is the truth I am not well - a cold just popped up out of nowhere, sinuses buggared, barely able to breathe last night and relying on drugs to feel half way decent!!!!!!!!!!!
Did manage to go to the Gym today and managed to do more than I thought I would be able to and I reckon I should be properly OK tomorrow.
Wind is blowing a gale so that will bring the swell up over the next couple of days. Honestly, the conditions are reminiscent of winter at the moment and it is the middle of summer?I cannot remember a summer where we had so much swell and surfing opportunities as a result. In fact I would go so far as to say the the conditions we are experiencing at the moment are more like winter should be ssw, sw and s swells which we didn't get much of this winter as the swell was wsw or w a lot of the time. That means that Nanarup works more like it should and that being our favourite break is a real bonus as we are normally scrabbling to find a surfable wave at this time of year.
Anyway, if it means we get to have reasonable surf all year round rather than just in winter as the now old pattern was then that is probably OK by me.

I use a great little Firefox (I hope you are all using Firefox!) add-on called StumbleUpon! which pulls up sites off the WWW related to your stated interests.

It has introduced me to so many great sites that I would never have come across and it is highly recommended! I am often to be found stumbling the net! and bookmarking like crazy!!!!!!!!!!
This is just one of many extra extensions that you can use with FireFox- currently I use:

• Gmail Space - online data storage if you have a gmail account and you should!
• Ook! Video Ook! - allows downloading of videos from sites like You Tube
• FasterFox - makes a Firefox work quicker
• FireBug - a webdevelopment tool that allows you to view and debug javascript, css Ajax in a web site you are building
• Del.icio.us Bookmarks - integrates your browser with this popular social bookmarking service
  

There are heaps of other extensions that you can enhance your browsing experience with.

I also have a couple of different themes rather than the standard Firefox version that I use including:

• Aluminium Kai 2
• PitchDark

Of course there are many other great things about Firefox such as:

• It has a really effective popup blocker
• RSS feeds inbuilt
• It is free and open source
• Tabs - what would I do without them
  

Anyway, if you are not using FireFox I highly recommend you do so!

I hope I sleep better tonight!???

The wind is in the north!

Yep! finally the wind is in the north and a trip out to Mutton Bird for a surf is on this morning. Hooray - I hope the swell is OK.
I think it is going to be packed with surfers as this is the first reasonable day of surfing conditions for quite sometime.
Michelle is going to hate that, as she likes to have her own peak - especially as she has borrowed a board off our band's (more about the band in another post) keyboard player Simon to try out - whereas I am a more social animal and enjoy chatting away to friends out there aswell as getting waves.

We went out for dinner last night at good friend Beth's place to meet her new cat Penny, who had arrived the day before on a plane. Nice cat and I think she will settle in very nicely. Beth cooked a couple of great curries and we had a very pleasant evening.

Been stumbling again this morning - IE using one of my favourite Firefox Add-ons called "StumbleUpon".
http://www.stumbleupon.com
This fantastic little tool pulls up websites based on your indicated interests and I have bookmarked heaps of terrific sites I would never have found on my own.
As I am studying internet computing, I am interested in webpage design and this morning stumbled upon a great site relating to Web 2.0 design parameters. http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm whcih I have added to my webcoding bookmark folder.
Off to rouse Michelle from deep within one of her heavy duty philosophy books and go for a surf!