Interesting results you can see from some low quality news aggregators Looking at this page you might think that I’m awarded with the Liberty Medal:
I’ve got this link while browsing the search results for RAC Attack. I guess should ask my granddad to pass my best wishes to Mr. George H.W. Bush.
Read more.../feed/ at the end of pretty much any page. For example, all my blog posts can be seen using URL http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex and RSS feed URL would be http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/feed/. Likewise, the Oracle category RSS feed is http://www.pythian.com/blogs/category/oracle/feed/.
For my personal RSS feed I have come up with another alternative that let me also keep my personal web site more up to date -- I've setup an aggregation of my blog posts from the Pythian Group Blog to my personal web site at www.oracloid.com. If I happen to blog at any other places like the BAAG Party web site, my posts can be aggregated and subscribed using a single feed on my personal web site. The feed has the direct links to the source blog posts so you are sent directly to the source blog from your RSS reader so no additional hops involved. The comments on the aggregated posts are disabled and only the fragments are posted in the syndicated post linking to the source for the full version and commenting. This way all readers end up on the source blog anyway.
I should mention that I had to "break" my personal blog feed during that process so that the subscribers of my blog are not spammed with 2 years of my old Pythian posts. Some of you might have noticed that. I had to write couple two-liner Wordpress plug-ins to assist in this process -- I should post them one day in case someone else finds them useful as well.
What does it mean to you? If you have this message in your RSS feed then, probably, nothing.
YES! This long awaited time has come!
I was able to go through all the feeds. I have cheated a little but not intentionally. About a month ago, don’t remember exactly, I mistakenly hit “mark all as read” link of the Google Reader plugin on the Google Home page and there is no undo functionality as in the real Google Reader interface. At first I thought, that s…cks — I “lost” 1-2 months worth of valuable reading. Now, I think that was a great idea — I feel so much less stressed and relieved having my reader empty. 
I just need to make sure the same happens to my email Inbox one day! (Hint: if I missed to reply on something - it might be by accident. Ping me again.)
I hope I will have time to spend a bit on the BAAG web site but there are AUSOUG and UKOUG conferences coming and, even though I have presentations already, I need to change there quite a bit - I’m not happy with their last versions (will I ever be happy?).
Anyway, good to have all feeds read every day and I wish the same to you — my dear reader.
I just wondering how people have time for that twittering, flickering, blogging, facebooking, del.icio.us-ing, listing, and other 42 types whatnot-web-two-point-zero-ing, and still getting some work done and keeping family happy.
I’m definitely doing something wrong here. :-\
I guess I’m just too slow…
I can’t resist mentioning this super cool feature here. It might be old news but that’s how I can catch up on my feeds. Anyway, Google Reader can now search all your subscriptions.
How many times you were looking in your reader history for a particular blog post you read 2 month ago but only need now?
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Recently I noticed (in this comment) that URLs in comments are backslashed when saved (to be precise, double quotes were backslashed). After investigation and with the help of Wordpress support forum I found that Wordpress 2.0.3 Tuneup is the one to fix this issue as well as stupid confirmation window opened after comment saving.
After moving to self-hosted blog I found quite a few spam comments coming every day. After installin Akismet plugin for Wordpress the spam disappeared and I just clean it up from special view from time to time. Bravo Akismet!
I haven’t posted anything for few days as I was actually busy choosing a hosting provider and moving the blog over to my own web site. After several days of disgusting service from blogger.com, looking at Doug’s Oracle Blog hacked and reading Tom’s Kidnapped Blog I decided to switch from free service to something more flexible and controllable. Some time ago I read that Doug was experimenting with WordPress and decided to give it a try. I have also done some research (well, just googled a bit) on popularity of blogging engines and WordPress definitely is a mainstream tool which is one of the main criteria I use to choose a piece of software. Actually, everything went quite well. I was able to Import all entries from Blogger and even “hack” Blogger’s template in such way that all old links on oracloid.blogspot.com are automatically redirected to my new address at blog.oracloid.com. On my new web site I had to play with .htaccess file to make it working. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to .htaccess file on Blogger - this was I had to use standard redirect meta tag which is not very well percieved by search engines, AFAIK. Using .htaccess search engines are normally update their links pretty well.
I’ve been struggling for a while to post anything or comment on any blog on blogger.com today. Redirected to http://www.blogger.com/sorry.html with message:
Down for Maintenance
Blogger is temporarily unavailable due to an unexpected problem.
We will be back up as soon as possible.Update (2:20 pm PDT): We are fixing a database issue. We hope to be back up in a couple of hours.
It’s interesting what kind of database they use and what was the problem?
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