1.	For people of the Jewish faith, mazel tov, welcome to 5763, etc.
2.	I'm still a no smoker. Today is the 12th week of No Smoking Dave. Feels good. I miss it less and less. Don't believe it's hard to quit. Just another commercial message from the tobacco industry. If I can do it, so can you.
3.	Earlier this week the BBC announced that they are providing RSS feeds that can be used with Radio UserLand's news aggregator. They join the New York Times and other leading publications, and thousands of personal weblogs, in supporting the network of news sites we envisioned three years ago in partnership with Netscape, and opposite Vignette. It's gratifying to see the model we bet on then take root so well now.
4.	Yesterday I dashed off some thoughts about Sept 11 on Scripting News, my weblog, and have been getting lots of email on the piece. So I'm running it through the email channel. Let me know what you think.