i've gotten used to using google reader for my rss feed reading. one of the nice features is the ability to share interesting items. i decided that i might as well start using this. here is my shared items page, and here is the atom feed. i've also added a link to the side of the page.
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google reader shared items
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007discovering non whats the plot plots…
Sunday, October 1st, 2006(translated into normal english, the title would read, "discovering the things that have happened and/or the news in places other than this weblog").
so for the longest time, i've been using bloglines... a while back, i gave google reader a shot, but it was totally unusable. finally, a few days back, they released a new, much nicer version. so much so that i would say i easily prefer it to bloglines... the new google reader solves the main issue i have with bloglines - that once you've read the feeds, you can't ever see them again and they're gone forever. it also adds some nice new features (starring, and the public watchlist are really neat features). and the new ui is awesome...
so far, i only have two complaints about the new reader - first, it doesn't refresh automatically (or does so after a very long time). this isn't a big deal because there are firefox extensions to do this kind of thing. the second is a bit more problematic - the default refresh values for feeds seems to be way too long to me. this is fine for 99% of sites because they typically are not updated that frequently. however, for watching something like the fatwallet deals forum, the default rate doesn't seem to cut it (bloglines also has some default, but i never really "noticed" it with fatwallet for example, whereas i found myself often wondering, "wait, no new deal postings?" while using google reader - which may also mean that bloglines also has this problem, i haven't really done any real testing on this). recently, i've also subscribed to the del.icio.us hotlist and y! top news, which change pretty often.
so my solution to this problem is to handle those types of feeds with a combination of netvibes and my desktop rss reader (so if i miss them while i am at work during the day, i can see them when i go home). so for the time being, i'll probably try to stick to using google reader. if you're still using bloglines and haven't tried google reader yet, i suggest you export your feeds from it and give google reader a try. even though there is no perfect rss web based reader yet, maybe one day there will be 
random stuff
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005my desktop is sorta dying... everytime i reboot, it kinda sits there doing nothing, and i often have to shut it off and turn it on for it to work (sometimes more than once). when it does decide to come on, i often get a message about "dram timing is loose" - not sure if this means my ram is going bad or if my board is going bad... either way, its not good news.
i can now browse the net on my palm using bluetooth... not exactly sure why this is really helpful, but its pretty neat just to be able to do it. i found a pretty nice guide on the gentoo forums.
i gave bloglines a try today... it seems pretty neat, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to me that it truly sticks to its promise of checking the site hourly. either way its kinda neat.
more email stuffs, kernel 2.6, etc.
Friday, June 25th, 2004greets. so on the current thread of email and such, i read two interesting things on /. - the first is the fact that yahoo and hotmail put gmail messages directly to bulk mail... i am not sure if this refers to any emails or just to invites, i have yet to test this. if anyone can confirm or deny this, please post a comment.
secondly, hotmail is supposedly going to up their quota to 250 mb, seeing that yahoo's upped to 100 mb. this is supposed to happen sometime soon i guess... the article is here.
the lake got a weblog! its very random, don't say i didn't warn you.
i think i am going to start utilizing these categories that this weblog allows, so that people who want to ignore the technical brouhaha can do so.
[technical stuff follows]
i forgot to mention this, but i submitted a patch to the liferea project to do auto discovery of feeds given a url. the patch was accepted (and modified) and put in liferea 0.5.0! i guess that would be my second patch ever (hehe).
i spent a good few hours yesterday trying to get guikachu
compiling, but to no avail. i don't have gnome 1.4 installed still, and i tried cvs, and got a plethora of errors. i think its a problem with their yacc file (or with the version of bison i am using, perhaps, although i tried other versions with no avail)... i've emailed the mailing list and shall see what they say. (well actually, i did get it to compile after modifying the yacc file myself, but i don't think the changes i made were "safe," per se, so hence i emailed the list to see if anyone could suggest safe fixes).
i also started reading some of the palm os developer files yesterday as well. the reason for both of the above is that i happened to run into some games written by aaron curtis for the palm -- a long long time ago, we both used to write games for the ti calculators. seeing his palm stuff inspired me to look into palm programming, so i'll aim to play with that at some point...
i also upped my kernel to 2.6.7 today. after many reboots and recompiles and tries, i finally got things working. the nvidia drivers were especially a pain to get working (i could start x, but if i tried to exit x, the computer would freeze). things seem to work now, and best of all, i figured out how to get my card reader to work in linux!