Aug 19 2008
On the TRE platform waiting fo…
On the TRE platform waiting for the train.
Aug 18 2008
Home from work and grocery shopping, cleaning the kitchen.
Aug 18 2008
@mythosfox You’re having to go on-site now? And you didn’t want to talk to them on the phone!
Aug 18 2008
@mythosfox yeah, had a bit of insomnia myself. Slept in too late yesterday. Luckily I get to rest on the way in to work.
Aug 18 2008
Yawn! Morning twitter world. (epoo the platform waiting for the TRE)
Aug 17 2008
@radi0chik So glad that’s one thing guys never get invited to.
Aug 17 2008
@sheriff72 It’s shorthand for “at”. EG: back when secrataries would take dictation down in shorthand.
Aug 17 2008
Not enough players on the DoD server to be intersting, so off to play some WoW.
Aug 16 2008
@ted_wolf I’m responding to your twit @ 11:30 pm on a sat night. What does that say?
Aug 16 2008
Done loading books, visiting with Kestrell’s parents. Time for food.
Jul 24 2008
Setting up a web page to keep track of Diplomacy game contacts
Jul 19 2008
Just finished doing the lawn. Now cleaning up inside the house before Mom and Dad get here.
Jun 17 2008
Ugh. Later to work today than usual. Slept right through the alarm clock.
Jun 15 2008
@GregWillits I’m sorry to hear that. Seems to be the week for media personalities to pass on.
Jun 15 2008
Finally up for the day. Catchng up on the e-world, then off to the grocery store.
Jun 04 2008
Trying to get my ssh public key working on my VPN server
Mar 15 2008
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”.