This week has really been non-eventful for me, unlike that kitty cat in the photo. (Sorry for no attribution on the photo. I couldn’t find the original source for it. If anyone knows, leave a comment or contact me.) The biggest event at CerebralRift Central has really been the whack-a-doodle weather. In the temperature was …
I have tried to decide what to do about Sunday. It seems like it is the perfect day to write something, but I really didn’t have a clue what I wanted to do. So, as I have thought about it, it’s just going to be a bunch of random notes and thoughts. The New CerebralRift …
When I started this site I wanted it to be a brain dump. More about the jumps between thoughts, and the non-apparent connections between those thoughts. Then I started reviewing stuff, and writing music reviews. They consumed the site. Then I started CerebralMix Pod/OggCast and it consumed the site. Went on this way for most of …
Introduction I wrote a quick article last night listing several open source alternatives to Google Reader, after the announcement that Google plans to drop the application in July of this year. There was an fairly active conversation on Twitter about this for about 24 hours, which I found myself following and responding to… In fact, …
The recently announced end-of-life for Google Reader has brought about many articles in the press listing replacements. Unfortunately, many of the replacements suffer from several deficiencies: Most of them are hosted solutions. This means that they have the same weakness that Google Reader had: your reading is under the control of another entity. This means …
And when I say change, I mean it’s time to get the party started again. Yes, I have wandered away from the site for way too long. The reasons for it are partially my fault, and partially just a matter of life intervening. But now I have a plan for a return to “business”. Read …