{"id":799,"date":"2007-01-03T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2007-01-03T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T15:13:29","slug":"new_toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/03\/new_toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have already noticed that I’ve added a new feature to Simple Tricks and Nonsense. If not, take a look at the sidebar there on the right. You’ll need to scroll down a ways to see it, past the Quick Links module; it’s a “widget” that shows which DVDs The Girlfriend and I currently have on loan from Netflix<\/a>. (We share the account, so the titles you see appearing there at any given time may reflect my tastes, her tastes, or our<\/i> tastes. Try to guess which is which; it’s the fun new party game that’s sweeping the nation!) Kind of fun. Naturally, the three inaugural titles are a bit, well, uninspiring<\/i>, but they can’t all be Wild Strawberries<\/i><\/a>, can they?<\/p>\n

I’m looking into a similar widget that will show off random titles from my LibraryThing catalog<\/a>, and I’m also planning to prune down the Quick Links so you don’t have to scroll so far to see the widgets. Eventually, I’d like to change Simple Tricks to a three-column format and divide all the stuff that’s currently in the sidebar between two columns, but I haven’t had the time (and, to be honest, I haven’t yet figured out how<\/i>) to do that.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, enjoy my latest exercise in exhibitionism. Hey, I may not get around to writing reviews anymore, but at least you won’t have to wait a whole year to find out how I’m killing my free time!<\/p>\n

[UPDATE: As promised, I’ve cleaned house on the Quick Links. I removed a bunch of blogs and journals that I read via Bloglines<\/a>, as well as some sites that don’t update very often or that have outlived their usefulness. I don’t know if anyone other than me ever uses those links, but if I’ve taken away something you valued, just let me know and I’ll put it back.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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