Since you so insist on broadcasting sickening, wall-to-wall Christmas music starting November 1, you have been unceremoniously deleted from the saved stations on my radio and replaced with hard rock. See you (maybe) in two months.

I already get certain RSS feeds delivered to my email (via FeedMyInbox.com), but I have no way to have either 1) the full-content of truncated feeds or 2) random sites delivered via email, on-demand. Had I the programming chops, I would write a program that allows me to submit a URL or RSS Feed via email, the app would gather the full content of the page and deliver it back to me via email. Does anybody know how to do this? If so, please email me at sds [dot] tumblr [at] gmail [dot] com.

Me: My dad and I ripped out the old carpet in the basement over the last week and installed new carpet, so that room is now available for toys and playtime, etc. My wife is really, really happy about it, so that’s good. Bellatoris: That is good. Me: We also tore up the wood deck in the back, and got supplies to dig a french drain along the back of the house. Bellatoris: Yeah, draining it should probably help a lot. Do you think you’ll be able to do that before winter? Me: And then I made cookies for my grumpy neighbors, and we’re great friends now. Me: I expect a Nobel prize at any time.

Is there a worse letdown in life than thinking you are listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama, only to realize that it’s Kid Rock’s horrific rip-off cover?

The entire purpose of the “Don’t Deliver Until ___” feature in MS Outlook is to make an email appear that it was sent at a later time. Except that Outlook doesn’t actually modify the timestamp of the email to reflect the sent time; it keeps it at the original message composition. There are many legitimate reasons why one would want to mask actual sender time, But unless the recipient assumes the mail servers prevented timely delivery, this tool doesn’t fool anybody. No thanks, Microsoft.

I dropped some DVDs in the mail at 4pm on Saturday, and Netflix sent me email confirmation of their receipt—timestamped 7:52 am Monday. Yet the public library occasionally keeps books on my card for up to two business days after I return them because apparently they are unable to scan in materials in a timely manner, which often results in unnecessary fines. All it takes is a high school kid standing with a scanner over the box of returned books to get them processed same-day. If shelving time takes longer, so be it. But if I get a book returned on the due date, I should not be charged.