The books in favour of papers swing is paying dividends already. I’m steaming through Yoga for People who Don’t Want to do It and haven’t missed Metro at all. Unfortunately, though, I have made the mistake of updating my feed reader (and in fact updating my Mac in the office to OS X 10.3 just so I could do so) to Shrook 2.

Shrook 1.33 was the best feed reader you could get. In fact, I gave it an award in the mag two issues ago, because of the way it ordered stories by currency, so the most recently updated feeds were displayed at the top of the screen. Now, though, it has an iTunes-like Library and all sorts of columns popping up and disappearing as you click on various entries. It’s hardly intuitive, and with the interface changing all the time smacks of bad design.

The old, elegant Shrook looked like this. Simple, uncluttered and easy to use:

The new one, which doesn’t even render as well at the same small size as the grab for Shrook 1.33, looks like this:

I wish I’d stuck with the old one now, but won’t let it force me back into picking up the free news rags.

So, I should be done with Yoga for… by the end of next week, I reckon - proofs permitting. I’m pretty undecided about it, though. It’s very gentle and relaxed, but that’s because nothing happens. Someone on Amazon criticised it for being a bit of an ego trip (I see the reviews have now gone) and I suppose it is. There’s a lot of random wandering off into irrelevant long recitations of meaningless conversations that go nowhere, and a whole chapter where the point was nothing more complex than the fact that the author played a game of tennis ball catching with a friend at the top of a waterfall. Nobody fell off. Nobody got hurt. They didn’t lose the ball.

Hmmm…

It’s relaxing, though. Probably too relaxing for a holiday, when it would most likely induce a coma.

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