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I’ve been using pigfoot’s Firefox 2 builds for a while, because I prefer using a build that’s optimized for my CPU, and Firefox 2 has been stable enough for everyday use for a pretty long time now.
However, checking the build archive regularly in order to obtain the latest build got somewhat tedious. That’s why I wrote Feedy, a little gizmo that will turn about any source material—e.g. a web page, an FTP directory, etc.—into a content feed in a format of your choice. Everything’s pluggable, but for now, it “only” supports Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0, and only offers a feed for pigfoot’s build archive, and one for the latest Firefox trunk builds—currently, that means Firefox 3.
Adding a feed source to the system is relatively trivial. Hence, if there’s a page you’d like to see turned into a feed, to save yourself the trouble of checking it, feel free to drop me a line and I’ll see what I can do.
Incidentally, you may remember I wrote something similar some time ago, to fetch the latest headlines from vrtnieuws.net. A while after that, though, they started offering RSS feeds themselves, rendering my project obsolete. I could have recycled the code, but I preferred rewriting it in object-oriented PHP. Sadly, I had to go with PHP 4 instead of 5, and, actually, I would have preferred Perl, but PHP was more suitable in some weird way. Anyway, it may still be somewhat messy, but it’s working, so it’ll do.

Regardless of how big a troll he is, you have to admit Crazy Caps Guy is one of the funniest things to happen to MozNet. Some people think he’s just some wiseguy with too much spare time—kind of like bfinn; personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if he were real. Either way, a little part of me dies every time I see him get banned. Nevertheless, I always get a good laugh out of it. Point Is the Establishment will certainly Have To deal With Him Again in The future.

The Zen Vision W has addressed quite a lot of my requirements for a decent portable video player. Of course, being a Creative product, it’s far from perfect: there’s no HDMI, no touchscreen, a design that’s, well, no design at all, and I’m sure there’s some other stuff I’m missing. Nonetheless, again, it shows where this portable video thing is heading, and also proves that both Apple and Microsoft are going to have to do a hell of a job marketing their stuff, if they don’t want people to realize there’s far better material out there. Of course, that’s Apple’s forte to begin with. As far as the Zune goes, well, with all the disappointing specs pouring out, I think they’re screwed already.

The worst thing about Microsoft Update isn’t that it dies with a non-descriptive error message—it’s that it keeps you under the impression that it’s doing something constructive for twenty whole minutes first.

I carried a 20″ iMac today—not very far of course, them bitches is heavy. Still, I feel unclean.