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Forking FoF

Long ago I started using Feed on Feeds, and I hacked the heck out of it do make it do just what I wanted, but of course as new versions of FoF came out, I never quite managed to upgrade an re-apply my hacks.

There’s been much talk lately about forking FoF, since Steve (the original developer) isn’t quite keeping pace with user’s requests, and people are wanting to see their changes fed back into the codebase. I can’t wait to see what happens with this, since it’s a piece of software I use on a daily basis. I just hope it all turns out good. I really should get the most recent FoF running and see how much I need to hack at it to get my hacks applied, and heck, maybe even make real patches…

I’m also considering moving it from my server out on the web to my server at home, since one is often overwhelmed while the other sits underutilized much of the time… red is due for an overhaul and install of all the latest and greatest from the LAMP world anyway…

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Vote for ocono.com

Remember last week when I asked you to vote for tinkernet?

Well this time I’m asking you to vote for ocono.com at mkeonline. This time you’ve got a full week to do it… I know it’s all meaningless and pointless, but dammit! I’m this close to being the guy behind an award winning blog. (Maybe “award” is too strong a word.)

(Don’t worry, I think that after this one I’m all out of sites to ask you to vote for…)

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Russell Ads Value

It was weird to read two posts from Russell Beattie that I was able to tie together and relate to myself…

Mobdex in 1984 talks about an idea he had, that others he showed it to later implemented and thought was teh cool, while AvantGo Goes RSS! talks about how AvantGo finally has some RSS action…

Here’s a bit I wrote in September of 2002 about rsshh:

…an abandonded project of mine, an RSS aggregator that produces an AvantGo channel for syncing with my Palm.

rsshh stood for “RSS Handheld” and basically it was some code that pulled in RSS feeds, and would then output simple HTML pages which I would then sync with my Palm III via AvantGo. I don’t claim to be the person who came up with the idea, or who implemented it first, or whatever, I’m just glad to help.

(Note: I was really confused when I went to Russell’s site, as I thought he switched to just publishing advertisements instead of weblog posts…)

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Shooting Zombies

I’m very tempted to go to Madison on Saturday to shoot zombies

With my video camera, that is…

(See: Zombie flash mob to descend on Madison for more info…)

The big question is, should I dress up as a robot, a pirate, or a ninja?

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Were-Rabbit at Fox Bay

This weekend we saw Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at the Fox Bay Cinema Grill.

It was a great movie, I laughed and laughed and laughed… If you like Wallace & Gromit, you’ll love it. It’s got the two-levels of comedy thing going on, where kids can enjoy it, but there’s enough there for the adults as well.

I don’t think I liked the Fox Bay Cinema Grill as much as I liked the Rosebud, probably due to their not being any comfy couches, it was all sit-at-a-table style seating. My other complaint was that there were probably over 100 middle school aged kids there. I don’t know if it was a school thing or what. (It was a Saturday night 8:00 PM showing.) The early teens set made things just a bit loud an chaotic, but besides that, it was pretty nice…