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I’ve gotten my Turkey trip photos uploaded to Flickr. There are close to 200 photos so it might take some time to look through all of them but I recommend using the photo album feature with caption info. Let me know what you think here or on Flickr!

Well golly, this place looks different. 4 dudes of the 404 dot org are moving their stuff over to a new server so a few things on this blog will be missing for a few days.

Seattle Drivers, when it rains, could you stop spinning your tires all the way up the hill outside my apartment? Here’s a tip, when your tires start spinning and you lose momentum, it’s a good idea to ease off the gas pedal and wait for your tires to re-engage the pavement. Either that, or buy some new tires. Thanks, you’re annoying me. Don’t forget to vote.

Clamor magazine has been around for seven years. Covering various social and political topics from a wide range of writers, the mag has been at the forefront of independent journalism for a surprisingly long run. Their fall issue features a series of incisive articles on the contradictions behind the vertically-integrated and “progressive” clothing company American Apparel. It’s worth checking out online.

As of late, Clamor has had financial pains with operational costs. Take a look around their site, read some stuff, and think about making a donation or starting a subcription.

No, this was not a paid advertisement.

Man! I was doing so good consistently posting here, but then real work happened. Anyway, I just made another release of the Friends RSS Aggregator.

Changes in this version include:

• fixed problem with certain atoms feeds (like those from livejournal.com) not registering dates or content, related to magpierss not fully supporting atom 1.0
• added a more user-friendly error message when a link category is missing any visible links rather than indiscernable ‘foreach’ error
• fixed problem of magpierss re-including another snoopy class php file, looks to wp-includes dir for snoopy
• fixed retention of URL parameters in next-previous navigation link generation, thanks to vanbrandwijk at creighton dot edu
• added plugin ‘wp-cron-refresh-cache.php’ for periodic cache refreshing with WP-CRON plugin

Happy New Year! Friends RSS Aggregator 0.3 Wordpress plugin has been released. FRA was built to enable a Wordpress installation to have a livejournal.com-like friends page.

Changes in this version include:

• Administrative option field for (MagpieRSS) output encoding. Includes UTF-8 for internationalization support.
• A new php script for periodically refreshing the RSS cache directory, so web requests don’t trigger a cache refresh and respond slowly.
• Added new display function, fra_display_feed_headlines, that displays only the headlines of one RSS/atom url.

The first release of a Wordpress plugin to allow for the creation of a Livejournal-like friends page has been released. It should be fairly stable, but since I’m the only one to test it so far, I’ll consider it a beta plugin. Friends RSS Aggregator can aggregate any group of links with RSS feeds in a particular link category.

Download it here. Instructions and more are at its project page. See my friends page for a running example.

I updated the Party List to add a web board. Why? I dunno. I was bored.

Although I’m sure no one has been trying to read this, all apologies for the down time. This site and a few others were down for about a week due to me moving to a new residence. woops.

Totally got myself a gmail account today from Ms. Dorothy. So email me at adamjk at gmail d0t com so I can test that g-lovin’ stuff out.