Californication meets Tranpacificism

Eeeeeee!! I feel like I’ve got so much to do before leaving for
Parras (technically, tomorrow morning now!)
(Or should I say, Parras de la Fuente, as it will be called next year, to
eliminate people confusing it with Paris.

EEK! So of course I’m spending lots of time bonding with 1s and 0s.
Figures. The music (above) came from the fact that I chanced to see the end
of the “Muppet’s Wizard of Oz,” which.. yeah, no Ashanti as Dorothy, and
none of that ghetto-fabulousness is necessary, thank you very much. I
didn’t really know who she was before (excusing a little of that song..
“face like .. Ashanti, uh!” however it goes.) And yeah, I’m generally
anti-Disney, but.. dunno, I have to excuse the Muppets somehow. Maybe Jim
Henson wasn’t thinkin, or.. who knows. But they’re sooo cool. Fun fact:
Google comes in many languages. One of those, is Swedish Chef/”Bork Bork”!
NICE.

So yeah, packin, thinking what to do or what I need. I think I’ll take
just two backpacks with me, then I’ll be much more mobile. I stuffed all my
clothes into my big pack today. Interesting.. Of course, none of my
schoolbooks are going to come until after I leave, and I don’t have my
address for down there, so..! Eh. We’ll see. Well, I don’t remember why
I’m writing this, but I did want to talk about my new change to my weblog.
I upgraded GreyMatter to v1.3.1 a little bit ago, and no complaints. (Not
that I had any before, except for 9’04′s archive page still doesn’t build.)
I finally RSS-enabled the bad-boy, and it was surprisingly easy! And that
will be what I write about in the Extended/More part of this entry..

So..
I did some google searching to find some information on RSS-enabling GM.
The method I’m currently trying to learn about is the rss-build one, with
this guy’s thread mentioning it. On WebWord, I got to: more info/commentary. (I also Searched on GreyMatter forum, nothing much yet..)

Not recommended solutions:
I tried the GM-RSS method, which is supposedly “independent” of GM, but I found it a bit of a
hack/kludge, and it didn’t even work properly!
There was another way to do it, but it replaces GM files, and is old. you wouldn’t want to run older versions of GreyMatter anyways, due to security issues.

Current Method!
Connected files method, brilliant! What I’m using comes from Blether’s web log, and it’s fabulous!! The only problem was that when I validated it, I got an error with the date format. It seems it wants 2005-05-24 format, no time (which is weird, the standards I read seem to say time is okay.) It seems to have come in a RSS 2.0 time format, unless I’m mistaken.

There’s a couple of feed validators that I tried. Here’s the link I finally
got from one of them:

I used a few others, but none of them gave me proper information.
Feedvalidator at least told me the name of the date format. The other I
used was Userland’s Validator

I still haven’t quite figured out how to get my email address in there. I
found a resource site saying to use the
FirstName LastName (a mailto:email)
format, but Opera’s, and Matt Pearce’s RSS reader, don’t seem to like that.
I removed the (a mailto: ) for now, which works in Opera, but I don’t know
about other readers. Can anybody give me any feedback?

By default, this feed I setup only has my current and last article, which I
think is good enough. However, the date is wrong (it lists both as the same
date), which sucks pretty bad. I’ll have to figure out how to rectify that.
Otherwise, I think everything looks good, seems like a good idea, I like it,
etc. Let me know what ya’ll think! And I only put snippets of every entry
in the RSS Feed, with (CONTINUED) at the end of the body text. I think
that works..

It’s funny, when that dude from housing at school, Matt Pearce, told
me he uses an RSS Reader, I was all, “like live bookmarks”? I think he
internally shuddered at me saying that, and after discovering the RSS Feeds Reader in Opera,
I can understand why. Live bookmarks.. not the stupidest/worst idea, they
have merit. (Aren’t they in IE too, actually? Not just Firefox, iirc.)
but.. aye, it’s semi-pointless. Using this RSS reader in Opera is
fabulous. Opera has an integrated mail+news client, which I have never used
or setup, but it takes these feeds in with that. Which is awesome! So I
can read the summaries of all the slashdot articles, ‘delete’ them when I’m
done, and keep, and even tag/label the interesting, informative/useful ones.
This is FANTASTIC! I’ve been looking for a good way to keep track of
slashdot articles I’m interested in, this is perfect! Combined with my new
USB thumb drive with Opera installed on it, now I’ve got my feeds _AND_
bookmarks with me, everywhere I go! Yayers!

“What is RSS 1.0 vs 2.0 vs ATOM?”
Is the next question I have to answer. RSS 1.0 and 2.0 seem to be
completely different specs, and ATOM seems to take the best out of each, and
then also pretty much a brand-new/different spec. (Which has multiple names
too.) So, at some point I’ll have to learn some more about XML, and maybe
throw an ATOM feed onto my log too. But for now, I think this more than
suffices. don’t you think?

Well, I think that’s all for now.. I should get to.. everything I
have to do for leaving. I want some traveller’s cheques, for example..
anywho, ttfn! -@

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