quietlife.net

mixed bag

08 Mar 2004

Some assorted, boring updates:

I created some more detailed statistics on my website, using awstats.

I have been an RSS scraping fiend, lately, creating RSS feeds for sites I like that don’t have them:

Standard disclaimer for these feeds. As with all scraped feeds, they will inevitably break, and perhaps cause your RSS aggregator and possibly even your computer itself to explode. In fact, I think the Daily Kos diaries script is broken even as we speak.

Also, this guy, who is listed as a member of the RTB with his blog on slashdot, has added me to his “foes” list after only two comments. I guess he’s not down with the whole “dissenting opinion” thing. Which is a shock, see, because usually slashdot is.. alright, I can’t even finish this joke.

UPDATE: The dailykos diaries feed was definitely busted. For some reason the RDF XML that was normally embedded in the main diary page just disappeared. I had to re-tweak the script to scrape the actual HTML. Of course, this would be much easier if someone that ran the server would just setup scoop to make an RSS feed for that. *HINT HINT*.

Comments

Manish — March 08, 2004 at 23:16 · reply

I have had decent success with your daily kos diaries feed. BTW, what do you use as a reader? I’ve been using feeddemon, but my trial is expiring and I wanted to get an idea of the open source ones that are out there.

cwage — March 09, 2004 at 01:05 · reply

I have had decent success with your daily kos diaries feed. BTW, what do you use as a reader? I’ve been using feeddemon, but my trial is expiring and I wanted to get an idea of the open source ones that are out there.

I use feeds on feeds, which is pretty nice. It’s server-side, though, and requires PHP and mysql.

I like having access to my feeds wherever i go, so a web-based solution is ideal for me.

What this particular package is missing the most, I think is categorization. I have added a few tweaks of my own to the code-base, but categorization would take a bit more than I have time to screw with.

But, check it out.. It’s pretty nice.

There’s also the much crappier one that I wrote that some people seem to have liked.

But, when even the developer of a package doesn’t use it anymore, you know it’s wise to stay away.

Emma — March 09, 2004 at 11:28 · reply

With all of that, some troublemakers from NY and CA decided to crash The Party in 1968, but as they were not “in the club”, they were clubbed by other Leftists. Pretty much the same way anybody who does not support Marx, Mao and Stalin is treated in Berkeley.

Gee, I dunno, he sounds like a real peach of a guy, you must have done something egregious to piss him off…

(has he ever even BEEN to Berkeley?)

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