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..OK, I just made up this word.

I may be the only blogger hosting the Wordpress suite in her own hosting space with her hard-earned money that hasn’t updated yet.

It’s true, my dear readers. My Wordpress is still v1.5 virgin.

There are numerous reasons why I haven’t updated yet:

• I don’t have the free time I spend all my free time browsing around, writing stuff, or worse yet, playing WoW.
• I’m afraid. Yes, afraid. I know that the minute I upgrade, a Voidwalker will come and gulp my database backup, along with all my files.
• I like version 1.5 OK, ignore this one.

I..must…upgrade..Widgets…sidebar…security…*thump*

wordpress, update

Well, Unix & Apple folks, you won. We lost Bill.

(or we will, sometime in the end of 2008)

The tragedy!

Btw…I miss my Technorati. Where is it today?

Btw2…Check a great tutorial in HTML newsletters by Sitepoint. Eventhough it’d look like ‘back to the table and nonsense code origins’, it will help you build robust newsletters, that will actually work. Blame the e-mail services for the rest.

microsoft, bill gates, technorati, newsletter, HTML e-mail

Yay! Blizzard has announced the new WoW.com at 12/06/2006. At last, the tacky tables are dropped and the joy of XML, XSLT and CSS prevails once again.

Check it for yourself, the site is lighter, more organized and friendlier altogether. Great, great!

(I’d literally kill for a designer position in the team that redesigned the site. I mean it.)

Thanks to John Tsevdos for the notice!

blizzard, world of warcraft, wow

So I guess that after Hotmail, RSS readers stand-alone applications will be my next nemesis.

I just spent many hours of my precious afternoon to find, download and deploy an acceptable RSS reader. Why not some FF extension, you’ll ask? Because my faithful Sage, after months of flawless execution, just ..died. I don’t know why, but it keeps crashing my Firefox after the first two or three clicks. And since I greatly despise the Wizz RSS reader, other popular option, I decided to take the leap and move to stand-alone applications.

I have downloaded and installed GreatNews recently, but alas, my little brain could not get a clue on how to operate it. I didn’t know how to bulk add feeds, how to import stuff… Maybe I ask for too much, but this application didn’t satisfy me at all.

Next stop : Download.com, let’s browse the RSS readers. Aha! Active Web Reader? Sounds cool. So I’ve downloaded and installed the application. How can I import my FF bookmarks to the new reader? Nifty OPML.

But wait, Firefox does not natively support bookmarks export to OPML. So let’s search the Net, once more. After some light search, I discover an extension that sounds great: OPML support for Firefox. Let’s you import and export your bookmarks using OPML and not the standard .html files that Firefox uses. Download…install…restart Firefox…run extension…voila! .opml file ready.

I open the Import… dialog of Active Web Reader and try to import the brand new .opml file. Alas! There seems to be a problem with the syntax of the file.

(this is the point when I start sighing)

I search for an OPML validator, and I find one almost immediately: validator.opml.org. As the author states clearly, it’s in beta, so it may not work. But I give it a try anyway. Tada! The validator informs me that there is a problem in character #382, ending tag expected.

I fire up jEdit to check it. The file is pretty messy, since there are no newline (\n) characters embedded and all the XML is one huge sentence. I fix the indentation and try to find the source of all evil. I find character #382, but all seems to be OK. I delete the whole line, thinking one less bookmark, I can cope. Re-run the validator and..tada. Exact same problem, exact same character. (the foaming mouth point starts here)

I ignore the validator results and try to feed it in the reader. TADA! “No feeds found in the file”.

*sound of head dropping on desk*

Don’t you hate it when computer things just don’t work out for you at a particular moment? That’s one of those afternoons.

I’m back to my Druid.

RSS reader, Active Web Reader, Sage, Firefox, RSS, feed, GreatNews

…when a witty-named-but-oh-so-passe application launches, offering almost free ($3.95) MySpace stalking.

For this small fee, they undertake the painstaking task of watching the MySpace profile you provide them, notifying you when it changes relationship status. That is, when your victim breaks up with the hated other.

Lose a partner no more! Be the first to stalk the person of your dreams! Never stand in emotional queues again!

O tempora, o mores.

singlestat.us, myspace, dating