RasterWeb!Someone asked: How would you explain RSS-Video feeds to your grandma?
People tried, and eventually someone wanted it in Haiku…
Here’s my attempt (apologies if this is not a proper haiku):
subscribe to content
get it delivered to you
without doing a thing
Ok, I think it needs work… I really have no haiku experience… Can you do better?
I don’t know why I never thought of this before…
Occasionally I need to run a script that can either dump everything to the screen for me to look at as it’s running, or I can direct to a file to check when it’s done. This is in efficient. So while I used to do this:
perl foo.pl
or this:
perl foo.pl >foo.log
I now do this:
perl foo.pl >foo.log &
which runs the script, and sends the output to a file, while running the process in the background. If you want to see what’s going on, just type:
tail -f foo.log
to continually watch the output. Of course you can do grep’s on the file, or just tail part of it, or whatever, but it’s nice to be able to keep that long process running, and check on it’s progress quite easily.
It’s the little things, you know…
Gosh, how long has it been since I (or anyone else for that matter) has mentioned a video iPod?
Apple declined to comment about a video iPod. (Or anything else for that matter.)
Stay (i)Tuned!
Yahoo! is Upcoming… I mean, Yahoo! aquired Upcoming.org!
Hooray for the Upcoming.org guys…. (And Yahoo!)
I just hope it doesn’t go the way it went with blo.gs. I assume it won’t, since it’s a people thing too, and not just a purchase of an existing service. I’m sure it’ll be all Flickry…
I know, Google is the King of Search, right? But Yahoo! just keeps adding on, and adding on, and getting and doing more cool things, and it seems like every 6 months someone else I know goes to work for Yahoo! and I’m going to be nice to them now just in case they want buy me in the future…
I know, you’ve been hearing all this stuff about how OPML is good, or OPML is bad, or OPML is a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, inside an enigma. Well, come on now folks, OPML r001z! It just needs a few uh, improvements here and there…
Is there an OPML Validator? Yes, though it’s hard to find, not properly named, or documented very well, and there appears to be no source available… What we need is something as well put together as the Feed Validator, including source code under an open-source license.
Is there an OPML Spec? Yes, though it’s not been revised in over 5 years, and perhaps it should be, as it things have changed and we’ve learned much since then, what with the utf-8 and the &persands and what not…
Is there a DTD? Yes, well, for OPML 1.0. Of course the validator also supports OPML 1.1, of course the Spec is for OPML 1.0, so, um, yeah…
OPML seems to be “sort of” “kind of” there, but not quite. Clean up everything, look at RSS, Atom, OML and any other XML formats you can think of, figure out what OPML might be lacking, add it in there, provide a good, easy-to-use & easy-to-find validator, and we can all stop stepping on puppies when we use OPML.
I know, you the reader are left wondering why I don’t do all of the things I mentioned above? Well dear reader, I don’t do such things. What I do though, is deal with the formats that people create years after they become popular, I mean, you’ve heard the phrase "XML that isn’t really XML" right? Well, I’d just like to make sure I don’t hear "XML that isn’t really XML" any more before I’m told to start writing code that has to produce and consume OPML…
But what do I know? I’m not a user or a developer, I’m just a hacker…