del.icio.us

Another useful (or at least cool) thing I’ve found through 43 Folders is del.icio.us, a social bookmark aggregator. I haven’t done much with it yet, but we’ll see.

How it works: You register for a (free) account. Then you can dump URLs in with descriptions and tags (keywords). You can view by tag, so if a bunch of people are all tossing stuff in with the same tag, it’s a handy way to highly focus site discovery on a particular topic. For example, the page for links with the osx tag, or the one for webcomics.

And each of those pages has its own RSS feed, so you can have your RSS reader (you do have an RSS reader, don’t you? I’m currently using NewsFire) check for new links automatically.

BTW, LiveJournal pages have RSS (and Atom) feeds too.

Ab crunches

Trying to get back on the daily exercise horse. Clearly I can’t make myself commit to a morning gym session — I used August’s membership maybe four times — but a bit of exercise at home in the morning is better than nothing. So I did some ab crunches today, and I’ll try push-ups tomorrow, and swap them day by day. It’s a five-to-ten minute commitment, rather than an hour, and ought to be more compatible with getting to work on time.

20 ab crunches
20 penguin crunches
5 minutes of borderline abdominal cramping

Man, it’s been ten months since I left off regular exercising for lack of being able to afford the gym. No wonder I feel like crap.