I like the Microsoft Reader (for eBooks), but don't like the Palm Reader (also for eBooks), despite it's switchable backdrops.

Books read:
"Mystery of the Fatal Cipher" by Jacques Futrelle
"Mystery of the Flaming Phantom" by Jacques Futrelle
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J. K. Rowling

Movies watched:
"Babe"
"Finding Nemo" - I changed my mind on this one. At first I didn't like it, it moved too slow and seemed to be way too long, but after seeing the whole thing in one sitting and focusing more on the graphics instead of on the dialog, I found merit in the film. Plus, Becky really likes it - so I'm going to see it a million times whether I like it or not...

Here is a short 15-second QuickTime video clip of Jared in his swing (4.00 MB).

Was mildly disturbed to find out that there are some geocaching persons who actually steal caches and bury them as part of another game, called "Stash the Cache" ('All Your Cache Are Belong To Us!').

I'm happy to note that the sport of geocaching got an article in PC Magazine (pg 22, February 3, 2004 edition).

I'm trying out the new Grokker 2.0 (a new type of visual search aggregator), but don't like it so far. This actually seems a lot (perhaps only navigation-wise) like an older "who's linked to me" type of service (that I can't recall at the moment). Grokker seems a little unstable to me, and it uses Java, so that slows it down a bit. Plus the fact that it's a standalone program that has to be installed (can't use it on other computers you might be at like a regular web-based search engine). Add all that to the fact that it's *not* free, and I don't think I could recommend it at this point. We'll see after I play with it a bit more.

I'm mildly excitied to try out the new "No Boundaries or Rules" (NBOR) software tomorrow. I guess we'll see if this software is, indeed, about to revolutionize the computing world as we know it... stay tuned.