24 mile high skydive

Man freefalls from edge of space 24 miles up, first human to break sound barrier unaided.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19943590

Reading feeds on a nearly-daily basis

There are a lot of webcomics and blogs I read intermittently that have some sort of ongoing story, so the reading pattern I really want to follow is:

1. Feel a bit bored.
2. Go to the last update on this comic/blog I read.
3. Read from there forward until I get bored of it or get up to the present.
4. Go do something productive.
5. Repeat.

However, what I end up doing is:

1. Go to read something I've not read for a while
2. See spoilers on what's going to happen in today's update
3. Spend five minutes faffing looking for the last update I read
4. Read forward from there.
5. Say "sod it", I should give up entirely xor read it every day.

Now maybe "sod it" is the right answer, but can anyone think of a better approach?

* Ideally there'd be a browser plugin which lets me bookmark a date, but when I click "next" automatically updates the bookmark. (Although that may fail with comics where the latest update redirects to the home page.)

* Or maybe, just have a "stuff I'm reading" browser window, and leave it open all the time. Except (a) it's annoying if it's ever accidentally closed and (b) it would have 50+ tabs and (c) is there an easy way to share that between computers

* Alternatively, I could subscribe to RSS updates, and then read from the "last unread" or "last nondeleted" forward? But not everything has a good RSS feed.

I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious way of reading intermittent updates that everyone does by default. (Other than "not bother", I'd find it easier to go cold turkey if I have the option of reading stuff if I like, rather than having to cut out everything at once.)

Fresher's Flu

I've not even met any freshers, how can I have fresher's flu. Maybe it's october's fault?

I always feel a bit embarrassed when I have a bad cold, because it seems like a childish thing to have. Since I'm basically as awake and alert and perfectly fine with everything that doesn't involve lots of extra breathing, I don't want to elicit sympathy or take any time off work and have people think I'm suffering from "man-flu". But since I'm sniffling and sneezing, I don't want to subject anyone else to the phenomenon, and I know how annoying it is when someone germ-ridden is around you.

Ideally I'd work from home, but I've not really got my computer set up for that.

Maybe I should adopt the term "upper respiratory tract infection"??

Filing!

I feel a morbid urge to categorise every nerdy thing I end up doing, as a sort of "screw you" to people who think they get to determine what's cool. Much enjoyment has been had at country dancing, at science fiction cons, at strip jenga, in doing maths for fun, etc, etc.

I think today may be the first time I've said "Yay, filing!" though.

But yay! I have a filing cabinet. I triaged everything in my giant concertina folder, threw away junk, and filed everything by company. I have spare hangers and spare space, so when more post comes in, I can just file it, and not have to think "where do I put this? maybe I should leave it by the computer in case I need it..." :)

Now, I've gone back and am clearing out a couple of folders that have been hanging around since university.

I found a membership to blockbuster. We only used it once or twice, every time having an argument about whose membership was most convenient and which blockbuster was closest. Now the whole industry is going bankrupt.

When book tokens say "no expiry time" do they actually mean it?