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.

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.