Linkies!

This neat “trackback” thing is pretty cool! Blogger never had any such capability, but now that I’m using WordPress, I can already see that at least one person has linked to me. Viva la Blogosphere!

RSS can kiss my ass

After futzing about with standards, formats, and all that jazz, I’ve settled on just using the built-in RSS 2.0 feed that comes from WordPress.

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XML/RSS Madness

I’ve noticed that due to the strange changes to my feed, some of the previous articles prior to Blogger going down on me have a very, very strange date. It appears in the XML file as 1969; my newsreader Thunderbird shows the date as 2106, though. Weird!

WordPressing

So, I’ve finally moved over to WordPress. Which means my posts are now database-driven and hosted entirely on StarKeith.net.

Update: Blogger Fixed?

If you’re reading this, then it must be fixed. After days of no replies, I (on a whim) changed my publishing method from FTP to SFTP. And it worked. I’m looking into alternative blogging methods – perhaps WordPress?

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