Archive for April, 2003
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I’ve got to hand it to the individual who keeps pimping www.zipcodeworld.com in blogs far and wide. In addition to getting around, (s)he’s also very well read and seems to have a wide range of interests.
Yesterday I came across this apparent mirror of my site, stripped of css and with links to japanese porn [...]
Drats and Congrats
Like lots of others, I’ve gotten sucked into blogshares. After deciding that it was fantastically simple to generate piles of imaginary cash, I got pillaged on a purchase of GMTPlus9 shares. I’ve since managed to bring my total worth back to within site of my initial balance of $500. Loser!
Also, big congrats to [...]
My RSS Headline Reader Tells me I Was Banned!
Last night Slashdot very politely informed me that my RSS aggregation software (in this case both Creosote and SharpReader) had been polling the site a little too often, and consequently my IP address had been banned from accessing the Slashdot feed for an indeterminate length of time. ‘A little too often’ in [...]
Thick and Fast
It seems we’re awash in 3-pane .NET RSS aggregators for Windows. In addition to Syndirella, there’s Beaver, FeedExpress, SharpReader, and NewsDesk.
Meanwhile, in Creosote land, things are coming together. I have been putting off that last big chunk of core work that needs to be done by making things look nice. Procrastination of [...]