Another problem is feed update error handling...I'll need to make sure that fatal errors (like 404 errors) are reported as message boxes and not as status bar notiications. [yole's devblog]

One thing I noticed is that, behind a proxy server, I couldn't find a way to specify credentials for background updating.

James Robertson pointed me to BottomFeeder - another free news aggregator currently on the market. The interesting part about BottomFeeder is that it is written in Smalltalk, which is not quite a common language nowadays.

I have just upgraded to MovableType 2.6, and installed Brad Choate's MTTextile plugin. This is a test of the Textile formatting.

• I love bulleted lists. I hate entering HTML by hand.
• WYSIWYG would be even better, but Textile is better than raw HTML.
• I wonder if tools like w.bloggar could support it.

[yole's devblog]

Textile sounds more and more compelling.  Maybe later...Must work now.

An important achievent today: My.Yandex, the only RSS syndication service in the Russian Internet that I'm aware of (maybe the only one that exists), now exports its list of feeds in the OPML format. This is especially exciting because this finally makes Syndirella useful for Russian users...

So tomorrow I'll implement my part of the agreement with Yandex - support for importing OPML files from HTTP sites, with the possibility to preview the feeds and select the ones that should be imported. This will, of course, open the doors to other major RSS feed directories like MoreOver and NewsIsFree.

[yole's devblog]

File under: OPML, Syndirella, RSS News Sources

Yet Another Geek Anniverary - the BBS. The TEXTFILES.COM BBS Timeline: 1978 - Snowed in during the Great Chicago Snowstorm of 1978, Ward Christensen begins preliminary work on what would eventually become CBBS (Computer Bulletin Board System), the first Bulletin Board System Read more about it at... [Heal Your Church Web Site]

Yeah! I got it!  Snowed in...some great creation emerges.  Well, that settles it!  I'm off to code my next great invention.  It may take a year, but it will happen, Lord willing.

I just don't get it yet.  Maybe I still have a while to explore personally managed content, but wiki just doesn't make sense to me.  Oh, well.  Maybe when I have the time, I will explore the cultural aspects of it.

Yeah, don't knock it until you've tried it.  But it's not really on my radar as important yet.

Now, I like the idea of it being used within a small group for documentation purposes like the link above mentions, but a world-writeable wiki...Well, I just don't know.