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RDF

RSS Feed pings from Weblogs.com

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s now an associated RSS feed with weblogs.com. With this, aggregators could check the feed to know when to poll an individual weblog RSS feed. On the face, this sounds good: stop all that polling and all those hits to our RSS files. However, the problem with this approach is that […]

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RDF

Changes to RSS Validator MT templates

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you’re a Movable Type user and are using the templates provided with the new RSS Validator, be aware of the following line:   <content:encoded><![CDATA[<$MTEntryBody$>]]></content:encoded>   This will include your entire post within the feed. I didn’t pay that much attention to the template or the generated output until this weekend when News is […]

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Just Shelley

How to drive in ice and snow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Weather Underground has predicted that we could get snow this week. I haven’t driven in snow before, and since I didn’t learn how to drive at my Daddy or Mama’s knee, I had to figure out what do do when driving in winter conditions all on my own. I’d thought I’d […]

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Political

A new symbol for peace

When we protested the Vietnam war, our goals were simple, our vision united: stop the war, bring our boys home. Stop the war, bring our boys home. And in that time a simple symbol was all we needed. Today, though, our goals are muted, splintered, filtered through uncertainty, fear, frustration, and too many long standing […]

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Stuff

This is your brain…

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?