Back in June, Blogger busted itself slightly by starting to insert divs at the top and bottom of each entry body to clear floats. I'm guessing they did it to be sure that entries with floated images in them don't end up stacked next to each other. The problem is that I (and some others,...
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When hobbits get athletes foot (which is common, since they always walk around barefoot), do they use LOTRimin?

Following up on my idea of using short-lived feeds to cover breaking news, as Sam Ruby points out, after a feed disappears, some aggregators don't stop trying to download them. This wouldn't cause a site that had only published a few short-lived feeds much trouble. But if a major news site started publishing short-lived feeds...
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The breaking news today about a man, possibly connected with terrorism, being shot by police in London, sparked a thought about a possible use for RSS and Atom feeds: very short-lived feeds for breaking news.

My wife heard the initial news of the London incident on the radio, and I went to CNN.com to see...
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Mac OS X users, if you have a recent copy of Toast, you have an iMovie plugin for making Video CDs. If not, MMT-EZ may be just the thing for you. It saved me a lot of trouble today.

I have an older copy of Toast that I purchased while still using MacOS 9. Until...
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Okay, so "all hail" is a little strong, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover what an enjoyable place Chuck E Cheese's can be when I attended a birthday party with my son there the other day.

The kids had a great time, of course, in the ball pit, the extensive system of tubes, and...
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Atom 1.0: "It's cooked and ready to serve. There are a couple of IETF process things to do, but this draft is essentially Atom 1.0. Now would be a good time for implementors to roll up their sleeves and go to work."

Thus Tim Bray announced the imminent completion of our work on the Atom...
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I released a new product last weekend, Tetra, that integrates with my RSS to HTML conversion script (CaRP) to put RSS newsfeeds into a DHTML (JavaScript) scroller. Tetra supports AJAX, enabling dynamic updating of the scroller's contents without requiring the webpage to be reloaded. A large number of feeds could be aggregated into one scroller,...
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A month or so ago, I loaned my lawn mower to the neighbors. They returned it with the bag full of grass. Since I don't use the bag, I just set it aside and forgot about it. Today, I was going to look for something I thought might have fallen behind the bag, and when...
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RSS feeds were originally used to point to content on websites, and did not carry anything more than a title or brief introduction to the content. It was natural to assume that syndication of feeds--republishing of them by third parties--was allowed and even desired, because it drove traffic to the publisher's website. But the way...
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