Misc.

I wonder what took someone so long to come up with a nice skin that had consensus. I also wonder if I should adopt it for my Mediawiki. Maybe a tint to the background like the current version’s icon and header. Is this sleezy? I mean Wikipedia is FDL, the code is GPL so it’s legal at least.

1. I updated Carnage4Life’s .NET Screenscraping code for K5–see here (K5Diary2RSS.cs). Something isn’t quite right with the titles (lots of extra spaces in my reader) but I only read a couple K5 diaries and what I got it to produce is good enough for now. Also, only updated rss v1.0, 0.91 should be same though. I’m sorta doubting anyone else will use it.
1. Couldn’t get it to run on .26 version of Mono which is the only version which was to be found for Debian Stable. Wonder if a newer version would work or if it’s gliched somehow. The error reporting wasn’t very good.
2. Ended up having to do a hack were the CLI binary runs on windows with a shortcut under cygwin and rcp’s my feeds up to my serve. Yay hacks.
2. Also discovered jwz‘s screenscraper-to-rss called cheesegrater and set that up for a few of the feeds it supports.
3. Found XANGA does RSS afterall even if they don’t have it in their header: http://xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=(username) is the format.
4. DiaryLand doesn’t appear to after much searching–I can only say: fascists!

Life itself is good. Calculus isn’t too bad, the new professor–Kullman (we changed at chain rule) reminds me of what Richard Feynman must have been like (only listened to his lectures) . Uses good strategies for lecture–repetitious problems with a main common thread all on the board at once I noticed today. Seemed very effective at reminding me of the content, though none of it is new to me (had Calc in HS).

Spent less at the amazing Jungle Jim‘s uber-grociery (2-3x Sam Club size with more or less all Int’l foods) than at the local Oxford Kroger on pretty much the same amount of food. This supports the idea that the local Kroger is the third most expensive Kroger in the country.

PBase (Photography Base) is pretty cool, visited again. Never any shortage of well photographed albums at high resolution suitable for wallpapering. Now that I have a camera and have taken pictures (esp like the Nature 2,3) to use as backgrounds, not so much of a big deal.

I still can’t get over this rainbow from last years vacation to Denali. Google found it recently and My server’s been treating users of Google Image Search to at least one picture of actual quality.