I used it before and for some reason didn't take to it. When I bought my Powerbook I got a copy free. Now I'm using to make process diagrams and I'm wondering how I ever made sitemaps or anything else without it. Omni are a cool company. OmniWeb is a touch useless and may well die now Safari's about, but everything else of there's is pretty cool. I've got OmniOutliner as well which looks useful. However, I'm already using the almost identical functionality in NetNewsWire so I'm not sure how much use Outliner will get. NNW is not free though and I'm not sure I'll buy it. I've given up using it to track BBC News and the Guardian and stuff, too distracting. I now use it to monitor the sites that update fairly infrequently but that I like to keep tabs on. Sites like Kuro5hin and Zeldman's Daily Report. I'd love to use it to track the blogs of my friends, but none of them have RSS power. Honestly. ;-)

Not only can I position tracks in the Cubase style. You can also position sounds at some ridiculous resolution. I have no idea how close they are, suffice to say that when I positioned 8 beats in row it sounded more like a fart than a bassline. That's what I call Squarepusher accuracy. I can now compose really complicated breakbeats and melodies and, more importantly, tweak them on the fly.

I just discovered how to use the arranger view in Live! Woo. Now I can actually build up some meaningful compositions!

I bought ben2.com for my work. Explaining how to spell A-F-T-N-N.org over the phone to clients was getting dull. Plus, I did feel a bit bad for putting commercial stuff into the .org domain. No biggie, just I'd prefer not to. Now I don't have to.

Now I have to pry the work and the non-work parts of this site apart. Expect most of the about section to move to ben2.

I downloaded NetNewsWire last night to check it out. It's an RSS browser for OS X. It's pretty good. I've had trouble with being too addicted to the news before though and I don't see this helping that at all! There's just much better things to do than spend ages trying to keep up with the ever shifting world of facts. I don't advocate being out of touch, I just think balance is important. Recently my news needs are kind of handled for me. Louise works as a journalist and either mentions or posts anything interesting to Hype. The same with other people. Like taking drugs through a dog, I use other people as bullshit filters.

Still, it got me looking at RSS. Its traditional RDF variation is a fairly dense grammar. Easy to do but heavy. Then I looked at Zeldman's file, which is dead simple (view source to see the XML). It works just as well with NNW. It lacks time values, but then so do most of the RDF feeds.

So, the upshot is, I spent half an hour hacking and now my site has an RSS feed. Woo! Click it to your left.

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