No time for an exciting update today, so here instead is that rare of things, a funny “Motivator”:
Sorry.
Archive for May, 2009
Mine have. About half my enormous RSS list in Firefox* just randomly stopped working last week.
Turns out that a typical customer-service masterstroke by Google meant that feedburner.com – which they acquire a couple of years ago – disappeared sometime recently, and thus everything broke. I wondered if it was just me being thick, but then I noticed that some of the actual blogs are still giving out the knackered URLs, so they probably haven’t noticed either. There don’t seem to be any redirects, so any Feedburner feeds I had were now completely broken.
Anyway, here’s how to fix it:
1. Find any of your RSS feeds that have feeds.feedburner.com in them.
2. Replace this with feedproxy.google.com
3. Refresh.
4. Relax. Make tea.
* Sage-too is excellent, though turn off “Render Feeds in Content Area”, which isn’t.
In what I’m hoping is going to become a watermark towards the lower-end of Shinypixel’s editorial “interestingness” scale, I’m fulfilling a (perhaps foolhardy) promise to erstwhile netizen Phil by blogging about his problematic Indesit.
The other day, the handle snapped off his washing machine door with the clothes still inside. Quel horreur! Some thinking (and a Facebook status update) later, he retrieved the clothes with judicious use of screwdriver and pliers.
Unfortunate laundry situation thus averted, he’s currently awaiting a new handle from the manufacturer. How will it all end? Tune in soon for Part II!
I’ve been having a listen to some quality looped-up nu-disco shenanigans from this Spanish bunch – first ran into them on the Buffet Libre Rewind project, and then noticed they’ve got a load of remixes up on their Myspace, including Farley Jackmaster Funk and a most excellent Heads We Dance rerub. Recommended.
File under: Loopy throbbing noises
Find them at: Myspace
It would appear that some people have a chip on their shoulder about the modern web.
Would have the original developers of Mosaic and Mozilla thought that in 2008, on a dual core, 64 bit computer, with gigabytes of memory, executing a simple text search in a couple tens of kilobytes of text could take measurable and visible tenths of a second? That displaying and formatting a single page could take long, long seconds of 100% CPU usage?
There are some reasonable points made – a few years ago, you would have thought that advances in hardware technology would make browsing the internet far more of a snap that it currently is. (Try loading anything Javascript-heavy in IE6 – you’ll get through half a cup of tea before it’s loaded.) Sadly, the organic nature of the web has meant it hasn’t worked that way, and this trajectory has meant that browsers are necessarily more monolithic than they might have been.
But aren’t we addressing the issues? The browser marketplace is vibrant once more, and all the browser makers are vying to blow away the inertial dust of the last few years faster than the rest. Besides, is it really an answer to remove all style from your pages and just whack in the odd Flash movie when you need something whizzy? No, of course it isn’t, but it’s still food for thought:
It is impossible to get it right. The Web Client is unimplementable.
