Author: Mike McBride

  • Blog opinions..

    Warning, actual real-life criticism ahead. If you can’t handle it, back away from the computer slowly… OK, first off there’s Chris Pirillo and the flak he’s getting for charging for Gnometomes. I’m of two minds on this one. First, I understand what Chris is doing, he’s trying to bring in some money for Lockergnome while…

  • Misc. ramblings

    Good morning! I spent a good chunk of last night setting up the comments for my Brother-in-Law’s wedding site. It wasn’t terribly difficult and my wife appreciated it, which makes the effort worthwhile, in my book. :). Someone at work found a dead bat laying on the top of a box of invoices in our…

  • Bug Fixes

    Had a bit more of an email exchange today with Andrew from the Newzcrawler Team about the permalinks. He figured out where the problem was, promised to get it fixed in the next version and gave me some ideas for a workaround. Very helpful! Turns out that the problem lies in the way their embedded…

  • April Fool’s

    After reading about how AOL bought out the rights to a bunch of popular bloggers today, I realize that there is absolutely nothing I can put up here that anyone is likely to take seriously. (Of course, how seriously do you take me any other day? *L*) While I prefer to think of this day…

  • Wow!

    Well talk about an Easter surprise, I logged in this morning to find an email from Andrew, one of the developers for Newzcrawler. Seems he read my little write up and wanted me to send him some examples of the problem I am having with permalinks so that he could look into providing a fix….

  • Updates!

    I just posted an update to the News Aggregator Showdon article today. Here’s what I added: “Additional followup: Upon further investigation, I discovered one major flaw with Newzcrawler, the permalinks don’t seem to work on many blog RSS feeds.It’s not enough to sway me to the other choice but it’s troubling. I also tried, on…