Saw RotK last night with Danny… his second time of probably many, many viewings, and my first. I liked it a lot, and figure it’s the benchmark for nerd trilogies, now that Star Wars turned to poop with the sequels this century. After, we went for a little Mexican meal, which was nice, where we gabbed about it a bit. Nerdy observations, all, but nice that things worked well. I’m just happy that I got to catch it on the big screen, but am looknig forward to the dvd director’s cut.

The sharpened computer is looking good… big brain kept tossing his HD, win2k repairs regularly to limp it through. “Really Big Brain” has a 240 gig drive now, a nicer graphic card, and a sharp dvd writer. I’ll be experimenting with burning this week.

We’re up to 51 at work now… I think that some of the new search procedures may be helping find kids.

Had a nice gab with sedef, good thing because I was getting worried about those guys.

Since the other day, there’s now more than a million active Atom 0.3 feeds at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[username]/data/atom .

Atom is an XML-based file format intended to allow lists of information, known as “feeds”, to be synchronised between publishers and consumers. Feeds are composed of a number of items, each with an extensible set of attached metadata. (For example, items each have a title.) I don’t know what the advantages of Atom are over RSS… they’re very similar, and the changes don’t *appear* to be too significant. I’m sure someone will correct me on that in due time, however. I did see that Google (who owns blogger) is supporting Atom, while Microsoft is plugging with RSS. I’m just happy that LJ supports both… it’s all about compatability and choices now, I imagine.

More at the Wiki – http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage

Random Scotto Factoid – I confused Apollo Creed and the prayer “Apostle’s Creed” when I was little.