Daddy Dearest
Stuff
My mom called me a few days ago on the phone and
was frantic muttering something about how "the
whole country is abuzz with the news". Now, my
first instinct is to think that there's been a coup
and my dad has been deposed which is not that
unusual to think given that we have never in
all our years as an independent nation had a
civilian presidency that didn't end in a military
coup.
It turned out my mom was actually calling with
good news. My dad
won the presidential primaries by a landslide.
With 3,500 representatives voting he beat his
closest opponent by over 2,000 votes. And to think
just a few months ago there was
impeachment talk.
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Thoughts on
RSS Bandit
I haven't written any more code but have been
doing some design work. Below are a list of
features I plan to add this weekend. Once added,
I'll be uninstalling FeedReader.- Utilize If-None-Match
and If-Modified-Since HTTP request headers when
fetching RSS feeds.
- Support namespaced
versions of RSS 2.0 feeds.
- Add more features for
managing feed subscriptions.
- Add read/unread
indicators.
- Add persistent way to
track read/unread posts between executions of the
program. Requires way to give each post a unique
ID, will most likely use URL of post.
There are a few things I'd like to know from other
RSS/Weblog toolkit developers.
For instance, is there a common API for responding
to a post in a blog? I'd love to be able to reply
to posts by
Sam
Ruby or
Shelley
Power on their blogs directly from RSS
Bandit.
Also is there a common XML format for
blogrolls? If
so, is it extensible?
#New Year
Resolutions and Five Year Plan
I've seen a couple of people post their New Year
resolutions and I decided to do something similar
so I can look back in a year and see how well I
did. My top five are
- Call my folks more.
- Write articles about technology that don't
involve XML.
- Go on Spring Break with a couple of friends
and fam.
- Buy another ride and make sure that mutha is
sittin'
on dubs.
- Excercise more. A perennial favorite.
About five years ago I had a rough plan of where I
wanted to be in five years. Looking back at the
list I've done pretty well and in some areas
exceeded my original goals. I thought it would be
fun to outline some where I'd like to be in five
years stuff before writing the actual personal
list
- Have completed or be in the process of
completing a higher degree either MS or MBA.
- If no longer working in the
Belly of the Beast, ensure to not become a
self indulgent professional
ex-Microsoft employee who
gives himself interviews.
- Still be getting fucked up every
weekend.
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