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• How to Construct an RSS 2.0 Feed for Faster Parsing I’m parsing more and more RSS feeds and I’m seeing some very basic problems. While the feeds are valid, they’re obfuscated. Harder to parse - not by poor tag usage - but by misusing the content within the tags. Here’s a quick run down of the tags as documented in the RSS 2.0 Spec and my
• T-82 and Counting Back from a week’s vacation, tanned, rested, and ready. A lot has happened, and this morning I put a few more wheels in motion. Lots of smaller things that have been sitting on the To Do list for way too long. The road construction outside the home office is mostly over - enough so I’m
• 13 Levels of Engagement: Football Edition There are a small number of NFL games I watch each season. Sunday’s Vikings vs. Packers game always makes the list. Sitting in the comfort of my own home - just a couple miles from where this down-to-the-wire game was played - my mind wondered how engaged I was in the game. I sketched out
• Home is Where the Blog Is Back in June of ‘08, I wrote a (relatively-speaking) lot here. Writing here is much more satisfying than almost any of my neigh 5k 160-character updates. Aside from the obvious freedom-to-be-verbose and control over visual presentation, and self-archiving, here is satisfying. Here is home. Elsewhere isn’t. When you comment here - it feels neighborly. Elsewhere it feels like
• Systems Don’t Inherently Change Behavior “One of the things I find most vexing is the implicit idea that acquiring a system is all you need to take care of a problem….that you’re going to be more organized because you have a PDA.” - Merlin Mann MP3 of Merlin Man’s Inbox Zero Talk @ Google And from the Q & A session: “Everytime you