Archive for the tag "rss"

This is for testing only; please avert your eyes. Or, don’t. I’m trying to figure out what happens to the RSS feed if I leave a blog post’s title field blank. So what happens? Maybe you already found out. Or maybe it destroyed everything so I changed my mind and added some stupid title after all.

(Update: Still don’t know how it affects the feed, but it borks the comments page. So I can’t leave post titles blank until if & when I get that figured out.)

By the way, since I’m blathering about my site I might as well tell you: I think I’m going to resume the folding of my Twitter-stream into my other blog posts, the way I used to do back before I stuck ‘em into a little box in the sidebar. This would apply to both the normal web-view and the RSS feed. I have mixed feelings about this. Assuming you use an RSS reader and also care enough to follow my blog there (that’s a big also) then the RSS feed is going to be (to the best of my ability) a complete version of the various info-chunks that appear on my site, at least during the odd phases of the moon when I’m going anywhere near this so-called blog. That would be a good scenario for most people. But if you also follow me on Twitter, then you’re getting duplicate info. That’s annoying. An ideal option would be to offer a separate RSS feed for people who wanted one without the tweets. I’ll work on it, maybe… but there are a lot of things I want to do to tweak my website, who am I kidding? If it starts bugging you, let me know in the comments and maybe that’ll put a fire under my ass to get the template in place.

• My dad called to get me to explain what RSS is. He wants to use it! I am so proud. Google Reader, here he comes. #

• Apologies to my RSS readers, as my feed will be going through some upheaval for the next few days. I hope it’s for the greater good. #

• FriendFeed in conjunction with Google Reader is my new way to keep up. Y’all are all my new imaginary friends. http://friendfeed.com/edith #

Hooray! I can now post snarky remarks to my Google Reader shared items.

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• Ever since I moved to WP, my content’s been getting splogged like a mofo. Wonder what scraper they’re using? Maybe I could htaccess ‘em out. #
• @McChris: Great idea, I forgot you could do that. I wonder if you can buy a gift card using a gift card? #
• Terraminds twitter search (via Biz)
• Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin: a WordPress plugin to automatically add copyright message to your RSS / ATOM feeds
• Kindle books now wish-listable on Amazon! Although, for now the button only appears if you visit the book’s customer reviews page. #
• Wil is a prolific movie reviewer on his F’book Flixster. Super smart &/or funny. I.e. for Vanilla Sky: “I personally prefer chocolate rain.” #
• 5 stars for Pootie Tang! “it’s a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai. That’s a canapan, all the way down. wa-da-tah.” I concur. #
• Got a little something for Mama after all. It’s not going TO her exactly, but I think she’s gonna like it anyway. :-) http://www.heifer.org/ #
• Ohhhh my bank… my aching bank… #
• The people down the street who like to build bonfires in their backyard just got a visit from the Albany FD. Swear I didn’t call! #
• Ohhh… somebody at Kindle Korner is saying that although you can add Kindle books to your wishlist, nobody can actually buy them. Psych! #
• @Ihnatko: I’m afraid of that too! I never blog on my blog anymore, but here I can’t shut up. You’re hands down my favorite tech writer btw. #
• Honest Gift Tags

• @merlin: I do that to you, sorry! Ppl do it to me too, and it weirds me out a bit just like you said. I ignore unless they’re plumb crazy. #
• Maybe I’m being paranoid but I just edited the plugin that displays the list of plugins, so it won’t show version numbers. You never know. #
• p.s. I’m not JUST stalking @merlin btw, I follow all the TWiTs whenever I see ‘em on social networks. Merlin brings the comedy, I dig that. #
• Make me a Greasemonkey script to display Gmail labels as a skinny tag cloud, instead of that longass column of single-word labels. kthxbai!! #
• Gmail Google Calendar sidebar – Greasemonkey script that adds a sidebar to GMail to display your upcoming events/appointments from Google Calendar. (It’s not very nice-looking though…)
• WordPress Plugin Database
• Mulling over an invite to participate in a music project. I wish there were more opportunities to sing on things! None since I left Chicago. #
• SimplePie – RSS aggregator plugin thingy for WordPress

• Oh dear, my rss feed is saying I’m posting everything on December 31 1969. WTF? #
• Thinking I can’t use TwitterTools, at least not to pull in RSS and create new posts automatically. Seems to be screwing up dates and GUIDs. #
• Search and Replace in WordPress MySQL Database (via Lorelle on WordPress)
• I got my Circa notebook and I love it! I noticed a broken tooth on the inner plastic cover thingy; they’re graciously sending me a new one. #
• I’m done moving into my note-bwallet! Amanda (@swatymyers) would understand the satisfaction. I’ll be using this every day, all the time. #
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• The banner-dragging airplanes are back. WaMu will never get my business, not that they’d want it. #
• Think I’ve finally got a more or less sensible format for my blog-blatherings. RSS people, I am sooo sorry. Please bear with me! Or not. #
• Dang, I gotta stop listing my tags on my index page if I’m going to use fifty bazillion of ‘em! Just moving around the ugly, but still. #
• My little sister Lilly (@queenlil09) says they opened a Panera in SAN ANTONIO. WTF? They don’t need that soup, WE need that soup! #
• I was walking and some guys commented in Spanish that it’s a shame I don’t like men. OJO: Hay gente en este mundo que hablan Español! #
• p.s. It’s the hoodie. #
• Jodi is so sleepy
• Blue Angels: They’re Here (via SFist)

• Apologies to RSS subscribers if you’re getting multiple copies of my "updated" (not) posts. I’m tweaking my feed, gotta get it just right. #
• Three guesses what I’m about to do to this plugin: http://tinyurl.com/yvqllt #
• p.s. I didn’t mean it THAT way, perv! :-P #
• I whipped up my own randomized lyrics plugin. You don’t want it though! Nobody would want it but me, and even I don’t really want it. #
• rsizr – intelligent image resizing

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• Nice. I just performed some monkey business on .htaccess, to redirect my crufty ol’ URLs to the proper new pages. And I didn’t bork it up. #
• Well then! I guess I’ve just dispensed with the www in my url. .htaccess is truly truly outrageous! #
• Huh. iPhone is no longer offering to delete a video after I’ve watched it. I liked that feature, I want it back. #
• I am almost incapable of typing the word "edit" without an h on the end. Even "edition" sometime comes out as "edithion". #
• I Am Married to the Berlin Wall (via WFMU)

• Making boxes. I now have boxes for recent del.icio.us links, YouTube faves, Google Reader shared items. Everything’s linked to its RSS feed. #
• Sez Wil: WTF is a Google Reader shared item? He’s right, gotta fix that. The eyes of the general populace will glaze over upon seeing this. #
• Singing harmonies along to Laura Gibson, even though I don’t think I’ve ever heard this stuff before. I can do that, I have mad skillz. :-) #
• This girl is killing me!! Gives me songwriter jealousy: I wish I wrote & recorded this shit myself. www.myspace.com/lauragibson #

• Added a new code-snippet to my front page, for recent bookmarks at del.icio.us. Using Magpie to pull in the RSS feed. Later for FeedGrab… #
• Submitted my first answer to the NPR Sunday Puzzle challenge. It’s too easy, there’ll be tons of entries. http://tinyurl.com/2se8xq #
• North Korea FTW! #

• Importing the Memphis Belles box set on Bear Family. Late b-day present from Wil — said it was something little! This is huge!! #
• Renewed my hosting w/ ICDSoft.com. 5 years of great service, I swear by ‘em. (And I get a month free for every referral… just sayin’…!!) #
• GOD!! FeedGrab’s offset parameter works in SECONDS, not hours. No wonder it wasn’t doing anything! (I only use HH:MM in my templates.) #
• Ordered a PayPal Security Key for five smackers. It’s pretty James Bond… http://tinyurl.com/yu6e63 #