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# Thursday, August 17, 2006

I want to be able to post rants and anti-establishment entries without having to worry about who sees it.  So I have a "Private" category that I want to filter out. 

You should not see this post!

Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:28:35 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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I have tried to get ATOM to format nice with XSL with nearly no success.  So I switched to CSS.  It works!  Almost.  IE6 doesn't render it properly, which is annoying, as I have been a defender of IE for years.  IE7 should do fine.

If you'd like my CSS file, note the xml-stylesheet tag in the XML and grab it.  If you don't know how, then you don't really need it, do you.

Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:24:03 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Finally,

I've been watching Woot! for several months now, hoping to get a good deal on... anything.  Well today was a Woot-Off and I snagged myself a 250GB SATA drive (WD, of course) for $60.   Sweet!

Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:18:33 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Here we go again!

I am going to try this one more time.  This time I am trying to leverage DasBlog (love the name!) on my keydrive to "host" my blog.  It will take care of all of the admin work, I just need to push the RSS ATOM to my Cox Webspace.

Let's see how it rolls!

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:26:37 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Tuesday, May 23, 2006

I think I figured out the logo file for ATOM. Just add the tag to the feed header and it should show up. (does it?) It doesn't in SharpReader yet. bummer.

Been too busy to really do much updating. Will later. Only 20 days til Alex gets here...!

Update -  I have dropped the feed logo for now since using DasBlog.  I will add it later.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:29:05 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Well, I got the XSLT formatting hooked up. It's still ugly, but it works. Of course, I will continue to improve it.

Strange thing: I could not get the XSLT to work so long as the tag contained the namespace attribute. Removed it, and everything works fine. But now the feed does not technically validate. We continue to research...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:30:08 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Thursday, April 13, 2006

I am struggling with the format of the feed here a little bit. I have figured out most of the important bits so far, but a few minor things elude me. My feed image is still absent, and the difference between published and updated confuse me still. SharpReader displays updated so I will retain the duplication until I find out otherwise. But overall, I think I prefer ATOM. It speaks to the geek in me.

By the way, if you want my ATOM format, you can use this feed and blitz the content, or download my template file here: http://members.cox.net/fwhagen/blog/_blogtemplate.xml . Share the knowledge!

Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:40:50 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Ok, it's build number 3. This time using ATOM, specifically ATOM 1.0. I am going to stick with this format for a few reasons:

  1. I can embed XHTML directly in the feed for nice formattingeffects.
  2. It's proper XML, which RSS is also but only superficially.
  3. It feels better. Or more extensible. Definitely more mature.

I am building everything right now with a combination of cmdline scripts and UltraEdit-32. I am looking for a small, free winapp that will do much of this for me, and will probably write one myself. if I ever get around to it, I will share the source here.

So buckle up, we're trying this again...

Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:31:40 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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