In about an hour and a half, I’ll be having surgery. It’s a minor, outpatient procedure, that involves putting me under general anesthesia. I’ll probably be too groggy to do much afterwards, but later in the week I’m planning to add a few things to the site while I’m convalescing.
For one thing, I’m working on pinging index sites like Weblogs.com, using Tatsuhiko Miyagawa’s ping_weblogs_com_rpc plugin. Unfortunately, my host doesn’t provide the required XMLRPC::Lite perl module. My next host will definately have shell access.
See you on the other side.
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Posted November 10th, 2003 at 5:27 pm
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Today seems to be the day for realizing how spoiled I’ve become by RSS feeds. First, my friend Sean told me he’s finally got a feed for his site. It’s only 0.92 so far, and he’s working out the kinks, but at least now I’ll know when he has new content. Seems I’ve missed a number of posts over there. Oops.
Then I stumbled on to some content (via a blog in my aggregator, of course) over at the Web Standards Project, and realized that they have a feed now as well.
Now if some of the web comics I read would offer a feed, I’d be all set.
I’ve been trying to get caught up on my reading today, as I have been essentially bedridden due to a stomach bug. I have just managed to reduce my “unread headlines” count in NetNewsWire to 0. I think it was around 350 when I started.
I also did some re-organizing of feeds, and dropped a few which no longer update, or which I no longer have interest in. I’m down to (a surprisingly low) 40 feeds. Of course, this removes my primary reason for putting off implementing a blogroll on the site. Whoops.
Now, I only have to slog my way through 214 messages in the Blosxom mailing list, and I’ll be all caught up. Maybe later.
The weather here on the east coast is pretty miserable today. Wet, grey, and nasty. How fitting that I’m under the weather today. Nasty stomach virus hit me last night during the Eagles-Jets game (thanks TiVo… I didn’t miss a minute!). I’m still convalescing.
Since I’ve had so little free time lately with my laptop (as evidenced by the dearth of postings here lately), I’m quite well behind on my blog and newsgroup reading. I’ll be trying to catch up today, and maybe post another entry or two.
Or maybe I’ll just take a nap.
I’ve been so busy lately, both at work and at home, that I’ve had little time for this blog. I’m going to try to rectify that, but I’ve got a bit of a content problem.
I tend to blog mostly about programming and web development topics, things I’m learning/discovering. Between my decreased spare time, and my current focus on Word/VB development at work, I don’t have the time to do my usual reading on such topics.
To fill the gaps for a few days, I’ll probably be posting more odds and scraps to the Miscellany category. The longterm focus isn’t changing; it may just be out-of-focus for a bit.