We launched a new feature for Bloglines yesterday, search feeds. You can search on something and then subscribe to that search. It appears as a normal subscription and whenever new items are received that match your search, they show up. In other Bloglines news, this is so cool, I could pop: Hmmm…I wonder how many people have “taught” Bloglines. I did today, showing my students the wonders of aggregation and setting them all up with accounts.

Came across the following this evening: “Client side aggregators are so 2002.”

Yesterday, I had my first aerobatic flying experience. I went up in N117PS, a Pitts Special S/2B owned by Attitude Aviation in Livermore. I have always thought that Pitts biplanes were cool, and I was right. The thing is a rocket. Extremely responsive. Think about turning, and it happens. There’s very little forward visibility (ie. none), so you have to work around that, especially when landing. First we did some aileron rolls.

Yesterday, I completed my second cross-country solo flight. Palo Alto to Sonoma County for lunch with Dad. Then on to Davis, then back to Palo Alto. 3.0 hours on the Hobbs meter. One more step towards my private pilot’s license.

Dave mentions the reasons that Scoble uses an aggregator that’s integrated with his email client. I have wondered why people would do that. With the ever-increasing spam load that everyone has to deal with, it would seem to me that the last thing I would want is more stuff in my Inbox. Scoble lists two things as advantages to this type of set-up: easy ability to email items of interest, and ease of saving items for later.