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Oddly enough, the ultimate CS classic - Donald Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1 (or any of the other volumes) aren’t available via Amazon’s “Look inside this Book” feature.

I thought it would be a quick way to look up just one thing when I don’t have the book at hand, but amazon.com has missed scanning and OCR-ing this one. Even more strangeness - a google search reveals a product search result (i.e. an ad) for the book at Wal-mart.com.

Am I the only person who cares about this book any longer?

Thanks to an email from Brent Simmons, the Firefox extension Feed Your Reader lets you auto-subscribe to a feed from Firefox to NetNewsWire.

Just install Feed Your Reader and select the “Feed Protocol” option in the extension’s one and only configuration option. Then right click (or hold-click) and select “Subscribe to This Page”. You’ll be prompted by Firefox to choose an application to work with the “feed://” protocol. Just find NetNewsWire and you’re all set.

I’m going on a week+ of vacation to the Denver area, up to Wyoming and over to South Dakota. I will happily accept suggestions on must-sees, places to avoid, restaurants and of course- wifi hotspots.

I’ll be hopefully doing some flickr posts too.

I know you can’t wait.

Update: Thanks for the recommendations for the trip, I wasn’t checking email frequently enough, but I’ll be sure to check them out *next time*.

I’m also blogging some commentary and ideas on You’re It!, a blog about tags, tagging, tagging systems, taxonomies, ontologies and well - tagsonomies.

So far I’ve both introduced myself and posted some basic ideas about why tags are good or bad for users, systems or retrieval (and of course, the answer is “both”).

TextWrangler, My favorite text editor for the Macintosh has an update to version 2.1

Don’t forget to pair it up with Daring Fireball’s Markdown for easy, markup goodness.