You are getting very sleepy….

Missing a little bit of sleep each night adds up:

“Conclusions:Since chronic restriction of sleep to 6 h or less per night produced cognitive performance deficits equivalent to up to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation, it appears that even relatively moderate sleep restriction can seriously impair waking neurobehavioral functions in healthy adults.”

Heck, they didn’t need a big study for that. They could have just asked me.

Kids

So last night, we (meaning primarily our daughter, Mary) were watching the DVD of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. At the end of the movie, we started looking at some of the special features, and Pappy joked around about changing the language track and watching the movie in Spanish. A couple of minutes later, Mary asks us, “How do they scream in Spanish? ‘Aaaaaah!’?”.

RSS Improvements

I’ve added full-content <content:encoded> article text to my RSS 2.0 feed. Does anyone have any comments on whether I should use <xhtml:body> instead? I generally make an effort to make my posts conform, but every once in a while, I get in a hurry and forget to encode an ampersand in a URL….

Slimbrowser

I haven’t downloaded it yet, but it sure sounds good. Slimbrowser is a wrap-around interface for Internet Explorer. Basically, that means that you get the IE rendering engine, but with a slick new user interface that includes features like tabbed browsing, integrated pop-up window killer, site groups, and other cool stuff.

via Phil Ringnalda