EMILY NUSSBAUM, writing last year about Buffy in the NY Times.

Because let's face it: there are fans, and there are fans. And for seven glorious seasons, Buffy has consistently attracted the second type: your scholarly theoryhead, your web geek uploading fan fiction, your cocktail party evangelist. Just because our show has been staked through the heart — the series finale was shown a month ago, with all the requisite media mourning and top-10 lists — doesn't mean that our fanhood has ended with it. At last, we can start living in the past.

(...shakes his scholarly theoryhead in remembrance...wondering what the hell he's still doing with a shaking theoryhead.)

Please leave get well messages on Granny Rant's blog. She's in the hospital.

As she says:

::: So Sorry I Have Not Been Around Much :::
::: It Is Back To Hospital Hell ... Whew :::

Not much else to say except I need your thoughts and prayers.

Thanks so much
Gran

I've loved reading her rants so let's send out some beams.

I love RSS and its many incestuous squabbling siblings, but I can't decide on that RSS reader to use. I bought a licence for Newscrawler and I love its RSS I.E. autodiscovery (though I'm sure other packages have this feature). But then I like to keep my RSS subscriptions up in Radio itself, especially with the improved display you get of news through ActiveRenderer and FM Radio.

But then I find myself subscribing to everything twice. And I'm thinking about buying a licence for Newsgator, though I can't say why, except for the fact that I'm impressed that they got funding. Oh yeah, and it's a .NET application and I used to work for Microsoft.

Also...anyone else having problems with the N.Y. Times RSS feeds and ActiveRenderer? It seems to be giving ActiveRenderer many infartions while Radio is having no problem.

Who Lost Iraq?.

The Iraq venture may have been doomed from the start - but we'll never know for sure because the Bush administration made such a mess of the occupation. Future historians will view it as a case study of how not to run a country.

By PAUL KRUGMAN.

Some of my friends are historians and will almost certainly be future historians, and I don't want to annoy them by foreclosing the future of their thought. But I still think (big surprise) that Krugman is correct here.

(Ok, I admit, one of my major motivations for posting this was to maintain the "forever" link you to NY Times items from Radio Userland.)

Via an article in Computer World: the discovery of a new system of improving spam filtering. Just like your wired mother told you, you should judge your email by the company that it keeps.

Or rather the servers that keep them. "Good servers" that have been found to send non-spam tend only to send non-spam. "Bad servers" that have been found to send spam tend to choke you with it, day after day.

Servers you don't know, alas, tend to send spam. Don't rely on the kindness of strangers.

This information is not used as a binary filter. Instead, it helps to prioritize which mail gets to go through the spam scanner first (and thereby get to you sooner.) Servers with a high probability of spamification get low priority.