25. February, 2002 - Weekend Update - Monday fun?

• As I got out of bed yesterday morning, I felt a pain in my lower back. I spent all day moving around my place slowly and hunched-over. And this morning, the trash men and recycling guys have nothing to pick up from our house, because none of the other dozen people who live in the building seem to be capable of hauling it to the curb when I don't take care of it.
• Since I've been updating Dave's Picks on a daily basis, the number of page-reads has almost tripled. I guess updating daily is a popular thing.
• I'm adding new categories to my Add a Pick page. I think the list of categories has settled down just about enough that I can start hooking up some sort of view by category system when I get the chance. If you suggest something and there isn't a category for it, feel free to suggest one.
• I've also added some code to redirect to the new location when I move pages around. I'm not seeing quite as many 404s lately (coming mostly from search engines that don't realize I've moved things), but I wanted a better solution for when I rearrange things, and I think this is it. For example, I used it when I made the About... for the site into a directory.
• And the reason I wanted to add an about directory was that I finally got my About Dave page bashed into something I didn't mind showing the world.
• The Aquatic Ape suggests that rather than evolving to live on savannahs, humans adapted to be beach-bums. Dude! [weblogs]
• Jenny suggests this Disturbing Auction. If you're looking for odd stuff to buy, this might be your site. Sadly, it looks like it hasn't been updated since last August. Sigh. [some gal]
• Stout defenders call time on a proposal for the instant pint. Guinness is looking to make it possible to pour a pint in seconds, rather than minutes. Blasphemy! On the other hand, maybe Beamish can pick up a bunch of market share.... [Turly]
• Arms & Armor is a local company who bang metal around. There were on some news segment thingie a while back and I said Cool! to myself.
• I don't read FTrain as often as I used to, but Paul Ford's Robot Exclusion Protocol is hilarious. It's this sort of writing that makes FTrain a place to check sometime during a weekend. And then realize the weekend's over and you've been reading his stuff for many hours. [cam]

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