My very random thoughts after three cups of coffee and two citrus muffins and before heading over to the La Jolla Brew House to meet up with Dave, Brett, and HP, my three republican friends, may god forgive their mistaken ways.

First off, please update your RSS reader. Our new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/oso – by using Feedburner, now more than just our posts are synicated. My photos on Flickr and a daily digest of my links using del.icio.us are also syndicated. If this seems unfairly centered around me it is because Abogado doesn’t use his Flickr, Moreno doesn’t have an account, and neither one uses del.icio.us.

Having our blog content, my flickr photos, and my del.icious “recent reads” all in one place got me thinking. That one feed does a pretty good job of showing everything that I’ve done online in one day. For example, if you looked at the feed two days ago you would see that I put up five photos onto Flickr (all from my trip to Peru), you would also see what posts and articles I read online with one line thoughts about them by looking at my del.icio.us digest. So two days ago I wrote about the new Mac mini and the new little iPod and how El Pocho Abogado put Justice Scalia on Hot or Not. (so far, incredibly, people seem to think he’s pretty hot – or maybe only conservatives spend their time on Hot or Not). Then you also see the post I wrote about happiness.

But that’s not everything I did online two days ago. I also wrote two posts on San Diego Blog. And I made some comments and forum posts at Omidyar. And finally I commented on quite a few blogs. Those are all things that ideally, I would like to have show up in my rss feed. In fact, WordPress should have per-author rss feeds so if you’re tired of my nonsense and just want to read what music Moreno thinks you should listen to, you could subscribe to his posts and not mine. We’re still pretty far away from being able to do all that and most of it has to do with digital identity which hopefully I’ll talk about in another post before too long. (this is nerdy, but … ideally the following information would all be in the same RSS feed: my posts here, on San Diego Blog, and Global Voices and any guestblogging I may do. Any comments or trackbacks on any of those posts. My flickr photos. Any comments on those photos. My del.icio.us links. New items on my Amazon and Froogle wish lists. All content on Omidyar or any public forums for that matter. My technorati watch lists. Any new items I put for sale on Ebay. Any content I write on Friendster or MySpace. Any changes made to my FOAF profile. And I’m sure I’ll think of more)

La Conchita is a euphemism for a woman’s sexual organ. It is also a coastal California town which suffered a pretty bad mud slide a few days ago. More than 10 people died and so it’s not a laughing matter, but at work the jokes inevitably came: “Estuvo mojada la conchita y se chingo no?”

I just looked at the site statistics to see roughly how many people subscribe to our RSS feed – around 350 a day for rss 2.0, 70 for rss 1.0 and surprisingly only 15 for the ATOM feed. So far only three have subscribed to the brand new FeedBurner feed. Hopefully that’ll change. Anyway, my point is, more people got to this blog today from Google by looking up the word “pedos” than any other word. Pedos means either “farts” or roughly “problems.” Luckily, I usually have more of the former than the latter.

I just realized that the actual number of subscribers is probably much less since a lot of those hits probably come from web based news readers like Paul’s.

I don’t understand all the drama about this new Guía del Migrante Mexicano that the Mexican government put out. Because there’s nothing new about it at all. When I was down in Guanajuato doing a research project on immigration, I had to go to their “Office of Homeland Affairs in Foreign Countries” or some ridiculous name like that and they gave me boxes and boxes of these guides to show that the Mexican government really does care about the plight of the migrant worker. (read: wants remittances to keep flowing) I still have a lot of the old pamphlets and I’ll scan a couple in if I have the time – they definitely got a better illustrator this time around. Anyway, like HP, my perspective on the whole thing is Ruben Navarette’s.

Saw Sideways last night – loved it. If you go, sneak a bottle of wine in with you. Reminded me of the many road trips Abogado and I have been on. When I get a chance, I’ll post about our road trip to Whistler, B.C. a few years ago.

Met Xolo a couple days ago for a beer y plato de arroz y frijoles at Pokez last weekend. Afterwards I had pedos. Great guy … I still just can’t get over how you’re never able to picture a blogger. I was sure I had him pegged. I updated my FOAF file to show that we’ve met … still a lot of updating I need to do on that. When I do, I’ll post more about it.

Off to drink some microbrew.