Here I was, just reading my rss feeds, when suddenly there is a bee in my hair. One that didn't want to leave.

I look out my window and there are thousands of bees swarming. Right on Market and Noe in the middle of gay pride. Gay bees??

Some kind of swarm-in-rebellion had taken over a tree right by our window. The living room was filling with bees. The bedroom was filling my bees. My new kitten Buffy was trying to play with the bees.

We called the the police  — they sent out a beekeeper, who estimated that we had about 6,000 bees in the tree. They were too high in the tree for him to reach, so he called for a fire truck. But, somehow, he knew there were 6,000.

He finally managed to get the hive — along with the queen, he said. The firemen wrapped up the parking meters on Market with police tape, and several firemen remained... because, says the beekeeper, the queen's sent is still there. What the firemen intend to do on beewatch, I can't imagine.

Meanwhile many of the remaining bees are pelting the window where I'm sitting. They seem to have taken all of this rather personally.

Just downloaded and installed the Active Renderer for Radio Userland. Looks as if you can do some really cool things with outlines and publishing live newsfeeds on your blog (among other things. The ability to read your newsfeed subscriptions is fantastic.) I want to play around with it but not sure how to fit it in the existing design.

Not that the design couldn't stand an overhaul. I'd even like to give some of those pre-fab designs a try, but then I can't remember anymore all the customizations I've done and what code I'd need to copy over.

I'm still using the FM Radio front-end to Userland. I still like it, but it I don't think it's been developed much over the past year. (It's frustrating to have a blog spell checker that doesn't recognize the word blog or let you add any words to its dictionary.)

Anyone else using any interesting tools for Userland? (Hey, I've been gone for a while and am just trying to catch up.) I've transferred my comments to the Python community server. Wish there were a way to post a list of recent comments that you see on movable type blogs.)

In honor of pride—or at least let's say it's in honor of pride—I've given in and started watching the 6th Season of Buffy, the gloomy one, that starts out with a fantastic line from Spike. (Household Opera is also a fan)

Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea.

I'd forgotten how different Andrew (played by Tom Lenk) was when he first appeared. All those jokes about making Buffy his sex toy.

By the 7th season, he becomes the gayest object in the known universe.