[thaumaturgy]

I've been following Paul Graham's essays for a while. I like most of what he writes. That led to finding out about the YCombinator, and although it wasn't for me, I liked the idea of it.

More recently, I came across news.yc when it got some exposure on Reddit, which I've become increasingly less interested in.

I thought, cool! People doing things. Stuff about the things people are doing. Stuff about how to do other things. I can dig this.

Then the last few days happened, and ... eh.

In the last week, I've:

Ground out a few hundred lines of ksh for a pretty cool in-house sysadmin package;

Developed a nifty JavaScript/CSS effect for a client website;

Worked out a wireless hotspot deal that might make my area pretty unique;

Started wondering whether Google's entry into health records systems has closed the doors on that market.

I'd like it if news.yc was about people doing things.