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Blimey, that looks nice

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

n900_features_main_490x258Could this be the phone mobile device to make me forego my trusty yet ancient Nokia 3xxx? (It’s so old, the numbers have rubbed off.)

Stranger things have happened.  Runs an impressive-looking GTK/Linux OS, has a slide-out keyboard, nice (not grey!) UI,  and appears to generally not suck.  Looking forward to seeing some real-life demos, to see whether it lives up to its promises…

Thanks to OscarTheGrouch for the heads-up.

Nokia N900 Product Page

Nokia N900 Features

Have your Feedburner Feeds died?

Thursday, May 7th, 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.