Author: westi

Optimising Feed Reading Redux

On By westiIn General, Useful Links2 Comments

In a comment to my earlier post “Optimising Feed Reading” Chris L points out Bloglines. I have previously steered clear of hosted feed readers because:

  1. I have somewhere that I can host for my self so don’t need to use a hosted service.
  2. I do not want to end up rely on something that becomes non free and I have to pay for to continue using.

However, I thought it was worth giving Bloglines a shot. What follows are my experiences gleaned from 15 minutes of use.
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Hospital Food

On By westiIn General1 Comment

It seems to have been quite a long time since my last post on the 2nd of August and I don’t seem to have got a lot done! 🙁

It all started with a nasty cold that had me sleeping pretty much solidly for a couple of days and then after a few more days rest I thought I was ok and returned to work. However, a working day and a half later I started to feel quite bad again and ended up heading off to the Doctors for some antibiotics as I was coughing up nasty green phlegm.
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DEC Niger crisis appeal

On By westiIn Asides, Useful Links

The Disasters Emergency Committee are running an appeal to Help families who are suffering in Niger and the neighbouring countries of Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso. You can donate online at www.dec.org.uk. If you would prefer not to donate online then donations can be made by going into any high street post office or bank

IE7 – RSS View

On By westiIn General, Web dev

ioerror has written a very good review of Windows Vista Beta 1 with a lot of good screen shots.

In his review he talks about the RSS feed support in IE7 beta 1:

One of the big things talked about in Internet Explorer 7 is its support for RSS feeds. Indeed, I found a couple already in the Favorites menu. So I decided to check out the IE Blog, and this is what I got. Obviously the RSS feed support still needs a lot of work, or at least a stylesheet. Hopefully this will develop further before release, or it will be pretty useless.

From: http://www.ioerror.us/2005/08/02/windows-vista-beta-1-review-and-screenshots-part-1/

In the screenshot he has on his site we see Internet Explorer displaying it’s standard pretty view of an XML file but not the nice view of the RSS we expected. I was suprised to see this as the test I had run of this feature against my sites RSS feed had worked ok as can be seen in the following screenshot.

ie7 displaying an rss feed

Looking at the feed returned by the IE blog that ioerror tested with all looks well and so it seems that the detection algorithm is not quite perfected yet – you would have thought however that the IE team would have tested it against there own blog!