• A few RSS notes

    Mark Pilgram also has an Amphetadesk Bookmarklet that will let you subscribe to a site’s RSS feed in one click. That is assuming that the site supports RSS Autodiscovery, which is simple to setup. You just have to add the proper line of code to point to your RSS feed in your Meta tag area….

  • Random thoughts at 1 AM

    There’s an inherent flaw in using Google’s “pages like this” function. Some blogs can appear to be alike one day because they both discuss a certain topic, but may generally have very little to do with one another. This is especially true when you get a group of people talking about going to Gnomedex, because…

  • Neighborhood things

    I was looking around, trying to learn more about this weblog neighborhood concept when I ran across Mark Pilgrim’s little Python script that lets you use the Google API. So I thought I’d search on this blog and see what comes up as a neighborhood. I took a quick copy of the page Mark’s script…

  • Showdown Part 2

    After a lovely meal of fajita’s and El Salvadoran Beer, prepared by my wonderful, recipe collecting wife, I’ve managed to finish writing Part 2 of the Free News Aggregator Showdown this evening. Go have a look at the new, updated information. New versions called for a whole new look at things, and there has been…

  • Gloomy morning

    Man what a gloomy start to the day we got here in Columbus. Rainy, gray, blah. It’s one of the few days I actually am glad my office doesn’t have any windows. The password switch didn’t go too badly, the ISP was kind enough to bend the rules a tad and send me a list…