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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Blog geekery - ignore if you're not interested

Does anyone reading this use an XML/RSS aggregator to organise the blogs they read? Do you subscribe to any "MSN Spaces" blogs? I'm trying to and having real problems. They say that they have an RSS feed, but I've tried various tools to subscribe to those feeds (including Bloglines and Firefox) with little success. Occasionally Firefox will suddenly "see" the RSS feed for an MSN Spaces page and populate the auto-bookmark, but only after I've visited the site. It's almost as if MSN only create the feed if you're authenticated on the site with good old Microsoft Passport. If that's the case, it defeats the entire point of having a feed!

I really like Bloglines as a feed aggregator, but if this keeps up maybe there's a better one out there. I've given up trying to persuade Kat to stop using MSN spaces!

Blogger Joanna  I use RSSreader and it works OK for Kat's blog.. but I think I am on auto-login.

Can't get an RSS feed to work any more for Siobhans site though. Used to work, and now doesn't. 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  Really? I haven't changed it 
Blogger Jane  I use Bloglines like you but don't subscribe to blogs on MSN spaces. Having said that Bloglines isn't always the speediest so I end up checking through my blogs on my bookmarks list as well, kind of defeats the purpose I know but it's better than the washing up. 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  MSN Spaces aren't really blogs though are they? It's like everything MS does - for example, you can't really call "Windows" an "Operating System"

/me runs for cover 
Blogger Becky  Ah you're mistaken to think that a Windows owner will rise to that bait. We not that concerned. :-)

Running Windows is like being a Brit. We all know Britains a bit ragged and crap in places, but we live here anyway and we can survive a bit of knocking because deep down we know we're better than anyone else.

Running MacOS is like being French. Stylish, superior, effortlessly cool... but still French. ;-) 
Blogger Selina  And God said to the archangel Gabriel, "Look at this. It is the earth - my latest creation of pure balance. There are hot places and there are cold. There is richness and poverty. There are wetlands and dry. All in perfect balance"
The archangel asked "But what is that land?"
"That is Britain and it is the jewel in the crown. The British are warm hearted, happy, lively, joyful people. There's is a land of outstanding beaty with rivers, mountains and beaches. It is a truly wonderful place."
"But Lord," inquired the seraphim, "What about balance. You said there would be balance."
God replied, "Just wait to you see the b*gg*rs I've put next door to them in France."

I really ought to leave now. 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  See, I don't get this - this strange 'moral highground' that Windows users try to occupy.

My OS is better than your OS, and therefore I am a better person than vous.

Les trolls oui? Comprennent-ils le sarcasme ?

D'ailleurs, j'habité à Paris quanda j'avais quatres ans. Je conviens que les Français sont toutes les merdes, mais les anglais ne sont pas tous qui bien mieux. En fait, dans mon expérience, les anglais sont toutes les chattes.

(she-cats?) 
Anonymous tanya  I use myyahoo and just add the feed urls to my page - never tried it with an MSN spaces site though. 

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