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On the TRE platform waiting for the train.

Home from work and grocery shopping, cleaning the kitchen.

On the way home @ w. Irving stati.

@mythosfox You’re having to go on-site now? And you didn’t want to talk to them on the phone!

What is the difference between Plurk and Twitter?

@mythosfox Almost 10 already? Doesn’t feel that late…

@mythosfox yeah, had a bit of insomnia myself. Slept in too late yesterday. Luckily I get to rest on the way in to work.

Testing from ping.fm

@mythosfox not enough sleep last night, eh?

Just arrived at work. Getting my morning coffee.

Yawn! Morning twitter world. (epoo the platform waiting for the TRE)

@radi0chik So glad that’s one thing guys never get invited to.

@sheriff72 It’s shorthand for “at”. EG: back when secrataries would take dictation down in shorthand.

Not enough players on the DoD server to be intersting, so off to play some WoW.

@ted_wolf I’m responding to your twit @ 11:30 pm on a sat night. What does that say?

@beckerbuns Yikes! Hope you get that sorted out quick.

Done loading books, visiting with Kestrell’s parents. Time for food.

Yawn! Finally awake.

@beckerbuns that doesn’t sound good.

Test

Setting up a web page to keep track of Diplomacy game contacts

Just finished doing the lawn. Now cleaning up inside the house before Mom and Dad get here.

@choochoobear wow, hope the cop nailed her ass.

Ugh. Later to work today than usual. Slept right through the alarm clock.

@GregWillits I’m sorry to hear that. Seems to be the week for media personalities to pass on.

Finally up for the day. Catchng up on the e-world, then off to the grocery store.

Done with lunch. Back to working on Xen deploy scripts.

SSH fixed (stupid blacklist), vpn working. Yay!

Trying to get my ssh public key working on my VPN server

Does Youtube simply not grasp RSS?

Viewing any RSS enabled web site in Firefox or Konquerer, I get a little button in my browser that allows me to add that RSS feed directly to my RSS agregator. In Firefox, this defaults to it’s own “Livemarks” system, in Konquerer the default is the Kontact/Akregator application, but both have a mechanism to define another reader.

Click on this little button when viewing any page on Youtube and you get… a broken RSS feed.
In Firefox it takes you to, not the RSS feed, but a page EXPLAINING HOW TO GET THE RSS FEED. If I need an explanation I would look for a link ON the page that says “about our RSS feeds” or something similar. If I click the “subscribe” button, which is generated by the “link rel=’alternate’ type=’application/rss+xml’”, I expect I’ll get an RSS feed, not human-readable page ABOUT rss feeds.

On top of this, they don’t offer a feed of something simple like, say, all of my “subscribed” channels. No, I can get a feed of MY vides (videos I’ve uploaded. Useless to me since I don’t upload videos. I’m a consumer, not a producor.), all new videos (The last thing I want is an RSS feed of every new video posted to Youtube), etc.
Even viewing the page for one of my subscriptions, there’s no link to subscribe to the RSS feed. Sure, the “about” page tells me what URL syntax to put in my RSS reader to GET that page, but why don’t they just put the simple header IN the html page so I can use the tools just about every browser provides to subscribe to the RSS?

Apparently for Youtube, Really Simple Syndication means “you do the work”.