I’ve been working on a little piece of code to pull down RSS feeds and display them on a small LCD attached to the controller. It’s pretty basic now; it just looks for stuff inside of <description> tags and pulls it out. You can see the gory details at my Making Things Member Page.
If you’re seeing this, then you’ve found my new WordPress blog. In theory, the old links should still work. I’ve switched over to Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting, and while it’s unusual, I’m finding a way to do what I need to do, even when it’s in a where-the-hell-is-my-shell roundabout way. You’ll probably want to update your subscription at some point, but it’s probably not necessary.
Because I thought that his pipe would look better as a hook. [7/17/2005]
update: I’m flattered–bloglines is using an identical design (mirrored) for their 12/19 outage.
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News: “Cori Schlegel notes that only four of the companies presenting at Under
The Radar have RSS feeds.”
When I see something like this, and when someone
has been kind enough to provide a nice set of links to all the offending
sites, I think there’s a moral obligation to click through on them all.
If enough of us do it, it will register in their referer logs, and maybe
they’ll do something about this. I was going to tell you how easy it is
to do this in a tabbed browser with control/command-click: just open
them up real fast and close all the tabs at once when you’re done, but
there’s another exercise you can do while you’re at it: can you figure
out what any of these companies do? Is it any coincidence that the ones
with RSS feeds also have simple web sites with clear explanations of
what the company is all about?
