OK, perhaps I’m missing something, but there’s this podcast, Slashdot Review, in which a guy by the name of Andrew McCaskey reads Slashdot article summaries. Granted, he’s got a good radio voice, but all he does is reads the front page of the site, then plays a song. Takes about 15 minutes for the whole thing.

Even assuming this is for folks on the go — grabbing a podcast feed for their pod — couldn’t you just snag the /. rss feed or even use their PDA interface? Visually scan the stories in a few seconds instead of waiting for someone to interpret the text for you (since McCaskey doesn’t exactly read the stories word-for-word).

I dunno — to each their own, I suppose.

Missed by me in the last couple of days (see 2005 07 29) is that there were actually two new Kuiper-Belt objects announced. The aforementioned 2003 EL61, and the other: 2003 UB313. Awesome!

Astronomy Picture of the day for 2005 07 31 is of 2003 UB313.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Distant object found orbiting Sun. I always get a thrill out of these new discoveries. The hairs raised on my arm and a chill went over me both times when Sedna and Quaoar were found in 2004 and 2002 respectively. Same thing happened just now.

This one — which is currently known as both ‘2003 EL61’ and ‘K40506A’ since two teams may be able to claim its discovery — may be bigger than Pluto.

I had thought of doing a journaling/blogging add-on to Notanda, but after thinking about all that coding, I figured it might just as easily be accomplished like all the other articles here: saving 2005_07_27.txt plaintext in my usual local directory, to be uploaded with the others.

The wiki-link would then be a rather reasonable 2005_07_27, with 2005_07 for one of its tags — and which in turn would have 2005 for a tag as well.

I might want to filter these daily items out of the Index page at some point if they start to get too numerous.

Tangent: Eventually, I’d like the articles that are currently Category Pages (including the YYYY and YYYY_MM pages) to be treated a bit specially, including not being seen as updated by the feeds (somewhat confusing, I think).

So technically speaking, handling these daily pages would not be problematic. The real question comes down to what their purpose is, what need they would serve on the site.

In moving to what amounts to a stripped-down personal wiki system rather than a blog, I was in part reacting against what I see as the tyranny of the reverse-chronological blog arrangement. Most of what I want to write about does not necessarily fit into that format, or isn’t driven by considerations of time. (It was also a reaction against the simultaneous mainstream-dilution and rampant collective-ego Meaning(TM) inflation of blogs, bloggers, and blogging — but that’s another article altogether.)

Rui Carmo’s Tao of Mac — a frequent inspiration for this site — handles blogging with what are basically wiki articles about given days, with a ‘blog/yyyy-mm-dd’ naming convention. (He is running a heavily modified PHPwiki system.)

While I won’t be turning Celsius1414 back into a daily blog, I think there are particular moments in time that I would like to capture, coalescing them outside the amorphous WikiNow.

Anyway, these are just some potential ideas, brainstorming. It is also the beginning of a simple test of whether Notanda as it currently exists will handle date entries well enough. Which it seems to be doing.

This whole 2005 Dodgers injury thing would be a lot easier to deal with if they, I don’t know, all got injured at once in some freak team bus accident. It’s reminding me of the last couple of years the LA Kings played (for you younger folks in the audience, the Kings were a “hockey” team) and in which they suffered innumerable and freak injuries all season. Not to mention the Lakers woes.

This coincidence makes you wonder if there isn’t some sort of citywide collective sports karma payback thing going on.

Personally, I suspect the NFL is practicing voodoo on the city. There’s a reason they’re always holding the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the bastards. And it’s no coincidence there’s talk of moving the anemic Saints here.

(Those looking for info on MVP Baseball 2006 by EA Sports should know that 2005 is likely the last in the series due to an exclusive deal between Take Two Interactive and the MLBPA. MLB 06 The Show will be the new hotness. New exclusive hotness. However, EA Sports will be producing a college baseball title that will be spiffy, no doubt.)

Daeley’s Dodgers 2006

Daeley’s Dodgers 2006 wound up with another World Series victory, beating the Mariners in five games.

There are some big roster changes coming for the team in the 2007 season — time to have some Steinbrenneresque fun. Also, I will probably not be playing the full season, or at least simming a great deal of it, as I’ve met the biggest of the three three-year dynasty goals (win two Series), and I’m well on my way to the other two (home runs and road wins). Once those are met, I’ll be done with Daeley’s Dodgers.