Wombat Mobile I should be coding or sleeping instead of this...

My mind is shot from dealing with beagles all day, so I need to clear my head a bit, relax, avoid coding, and think about happy, little orange buttons.

I've been asked to add email notifications to Gefilter Fish recently. This was a harsh reminder that not everyone believes in the RSS religion.

There have been some really good comments recently about how counterintuitive it is to subscribe to feeds here and here. They're totally right, I'm surprised users are still getting subjected to this, the process is a huge barrier to entry.

I don't have any good suggestions though, I can't even decide on which type of button to add. If you look at Gefilter Fish today, I'm currently using a pretty indecisive button.

I'm not happy with this choice, though, so I'm trying to find out what's most commonly used and might come close to approaching some sort of easily recognizable standard.

Wait a minute, it's a lot worse than I thought, there's more options now than ever! Thinking about these little orange buttons isn't relaxing at all! [anger rising...]

Maybe it'll help me to see them all together. Hmm, actually, I kind of like the "feed://" one.

Whew! It's finally calmed down a little bit around here. The beagles are sleeping and I can sit down with a cup of coffee and respond to some emails.

We found a lost beagle puppy this morning wandering around the neighborhood without any tags. I put up a sign and I've been walking around looking for an open gate or people looking for a dog.

I need to start calling around places to see if anyone's reported a lost beagle and put up some more signs.

I've forgotten how much work it is having a puppy around. This little guy is crazy, he keeps knocking over the doggie gate and has tried to climb into the freezer. He's quite the escape artist and he's getting into everything. At least he's enjoying Dusty's old toys that don't get played with anymore.