Thursday 4 September 2003

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Bloglines

I've been using Bloglines as an RSS feed reader for the past week and I'm loving it, so another vote for that. I'd been using NetNewsWire Lite but when you're stuck on another computer and want something to pass the time, having all your feeds online is wonderful. It works so well I prefer using it to NNW when I'm at home too. So there.

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This week's culture

Tuesday night I went to see Douglas Coupland talk at the Bloomsbury Theatre. The prospect of seeing someone read from a book has never made me part with cash before, but this was Douglas Coupland! I was worried he'd be a disappointment, uncool and mean beyond the saviour of any irony. But it was fun. I wasn't expecting him to walk onstage wearing a grey pinstripe suit, and he looked surprisingly like a cherubic Quentin Wilson.

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Eudora 6, inching slowly forward

Six years ago I wrote a review of Eudora v4.0 for MacUser. As I suggested, Eudora had been the only sensible option for anyone remotely serious about email on the Mac, but version 4 marked the point at which Qualcomm began slipping behind.

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