Thanks to Elaine and Jim for pointing out that my RSS feed seems to have stopped functioning. I’m using Feedburner, an RSS Feed manager that allows me to see the number of subscribers, and it seems stuck no matter what I do. I’m trying to restore function without breaking the existing subscriptions. The official davidseah.com feed URL is http://davidseah.com/feed. Incidentally, the journal feeds are NOT included in the main feed; I’ll look at rolling-up a separate feed for everything that doesn’t depend on a third-party service.

UPDATE: The feed caching problem didn’t show up when debugging in Chrome, but it did when using Firefox. Tracked it down when using Firefox, and saw the stuck feed. Nuked cache directory and the feed seems to have fixed, but will keep an eye on it. In meantime, will take advantage of this chaos to migrate Feedburner feeds to my “real” Google Account, finally.

One resolution I am planning to make thiscoming February 2nd is to become more efficient in processing the various email alerts I get about various products. Here’s a few of them, plus a bit of my own news:

• Tom Novak wrote me way back in October about his simple graphical countdown timer at Timerrr as a Chrome extension. For those of you who can’t stand tomatoes, I suppose :)

• Patrick Ng’s blog Scription is the blog I wish I was writing…super inspiring and beautiful. He’s a talented guy…check out his Chronodex, a circular way of representing time.

• From Daniel Dankworth, an alert that he’s created a “habit tracking” app for Android along the lines of Joe’s Goals; I don’t have a smartphone so I can’t test it, but you can check it out at doboko.com/habits

• I periodically post work-in-progress on my Facebook Page; just posted a preview of an Emergent Task Planner Instruction Sheet last night. These are going on the back of the 4×6 Sticky Pads.

It seems that making fancy metal pens based on legendary pen cartridges are the profitable thing to do this year. The Render K Custom-Machined Pen is the latest in a series of pens I’ve been ogling, starting with cw&t’s Pen Type A and followed by PHX-1 Design Toolkit.

Each of these pens has a unique story about the creators pursuit of something better. The Pen Type A’s background is like a quirky love story, whereas the PHX-1 reads like the engineered result of a straight-forward business opportunity. The Render-K’s story is one about small American custom machine shops that design, fabricate, and are starting to create their own products. They are together creating the early history of the DIY-to-market movement that started with websites like Etsy; now we’re moving on to more complicated stuff!