Once upon a time at this blog, we did something called Hmm quickies, which essentially were very short posts, mostly one-liners filling up a single meatier post.

These were handy for expanding on several different things happening quickly. No, they weren’t automated and/or linkdumps from del.icio.us, furl, stumbleupon, etc. I already have RSS feeds for those if anybody is that interested.

Not sure exactly why I stopped doing these, but the last one was on December 12, 2003 Hmm quickies #20, nearly two years ago. Let’s get #21 on:

- yesterday there was no WiFi in the RTL conference center area itself, although there was connectivity outside (for a fee), so all my blogging was offline. I have dozens of pictures and a detailed blog post about the Ready To Launch event which I’ll be posting later.
- Russell notices that PSP firmware 2.60 now has podcasting and RSS support.
- turns out Sony might have known about the rootkit in some of their CDs sooner than when it was exposed and villified in blogs, and they claim they were investigating and planning to announce a fix. Yet another strange contradiction to their spokesperson’s initial nonchalant attitude. Oh, and the lawsuits continue, ouch.
- Another ouch: Om points to one of the things about podcasting that has bugged me for awhile: the ease by which some sites hijack podcast feeds.
- And to keep the pain going, Vonage didn’t make the 911 deadline and now might have trouble signing up new customers.
- Yahoo Mail and Alerts (beta) have added a built-in RSS Reader to their invite-only beta mail service. I haven’t checked out the new beta Yahoo mail client but the old one pretty much sucked.
- I installed Office 2003 Professional yesterday morning on my Tablet and Outlook 2003 crashes immediately every time it opens. How useful. Looks like I might be calling tech support when I get some more time (probably not today), if I can’t find a quick solution digging through their support forums and Google with the error report. Argh.

So do you like these Hmm quickies? Should I try to do them more often again? You know, just to mix things up once in awhile? One thing that I don’t like about them is that they end up fitting too many different categories and probably confuse the hell out of the contextual ad stuff. Maybe I should run these posts out in the category without ads (Current Events)?

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