Feedster
Just a small note about one of my favourite search engines, Feedster.
Feedster indexes RSS feeds from weblogs, and allows you to search through them. It has thousands of feeds indexed, and sending a query about something I want to find out about, instead of returning a corporate or shopping page about it trying to sell me something, I'm given actual peoples opinions about it.
It's since taken prize position next to Google as search engine of choice, I now have a tab (next to the Google tab, which is in turn next to my address bar) in Opera for it:
C&E Fun
Oh, and before I forget, I'm being raped by UK customs, and Parcel Force, for £22, for a game from Japan (whom the seller is mainly at fault for marking a price on the package rather than sending as a gift) that cost about £10.
Don't even get me started on paying UK VAT on an item purchased outside the country and then brought into the country post-purchase, or for that fact paying Parcel Force £12 for the priveledge of taking money off me!
New stuff
I did a bit of window shopping on Amazon earlier, looking at the things I'd most like to get right now.
One of the items was the newly released Order of the Phoenix, the fifth Harry Potter book; the funniest thing about Amazon's listing, I found, was that they're offering people the chance to buy Book 5..with..Book 5! Actually, it's the chance to buy the children's cover version with the dulled down adult cover version; bah to that! Was still funny at the time anyway.
I am a twisted person indeed.
Other items included the Evanescense album, Fallen, some other albums, and some books on content management I'd like to read, given it is my chosen field of development (and hopefully a thesis thereof).