Author: david

RSS Full Posts?

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Tom Bridge asks:

“Any chance I could get you to run full feeds of your posts in your RSS and not just titles?”

Some of my posts can get rather long so currently the RSS feed is set to summarize which either truncates the post or (if I provide one) shows the excerpt.

I don’t really care one way or another but I’m willing to put this to a vote. Do you want me to continue summarizing the RSS feeds, or do you want the full posts? I’ll give this post a week and then make my decision. The majority vote in the comments will win (only one vote per person please).

Alternately, if anyone knows of a WordPress template that will provide a separate full post RSS feed along with the default one let me know and I’ll look at implementing it.

iTunes Music Store Canada

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We’re coming up on the second month anniversary of the Canadian iTMS opening and I am still rather disappointed with the selection. There is a ton of music missing that exists on the US or UK stores.

In just a random search: No New Pornographers, the Bleed American album by Jimmy Eat World is missing (although thier others are there), no Gary Numan, and no JoyDrop. I was hoping that iTMS would enable the long tail. Dissapointing.

I’m assuming that there are a bunch of labels that haven’t cleared their music for iTMSCA yet. I was hoping things would get better in January. Sigh, I guess patience is not my strong suite…

First Mac

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With it being the 21st anniversary of the Macintosh (take yours out for a drink – it’s legal now) and after seeing the original announcement video, I’ve got a question: What was your first Mac?

Mine was a Mac SE (System Expandable) with dual floppies and 1 MB of RAM.

Primary machine timeline: Mac SE >> Mac SE30 >> Mac IIcx >> Mac IIx >> PowerBook 5300 >> PowerBook 1400 >> PowerMac G3 (B&W) >> PowerBook G3 (Pismo) >> PowerBook G4 (Titanium) >> PowerBook G4 (17″ Aluminum)

Obviously, there’s been lots of others (secondary desktop machines and servers) but these were my primary work machines.

Snow gear porn

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Getting all hot and sweaty over macho snow gear, Gizmodo posted this yesterday:

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As luck would have it, Halifax just got blasted by another blizzard and my brother-in-law sent us pictures (Thanks James! And yes, the Mac mini is a good replacement for your PC :-)). Here’s one of the tank snow-blower in action:

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It does make the 10-15 cm we are expecting tonight feel kinda wimpy though.

Nofollow followup

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Well, folks plenty smarter than me are beginning to wade in on the rel=”nofollow” debate with a greater depth of insight than: Hmm, something new to install. Cool!

It turns out that wide spread use of rel=”nofollow” may have unintended consequences that are not particularly good. Not good at all. Pretty bad in fact. Horribly world crushingly soul destroyingly bad actually. Well, not really that bad. But pretty bad anyway.

But, not knowing one way or the other, I’m gonna utilize the fence sitters salvation. That being the wait and see approach. I hope those smart people get their act together soon though. This fence is uncomfortable.