A Warm Place

Tuesday, 05 February 2008

• RSS is my XML-Based Hero

  So, recently in my endeavors around the internet, I've become addicted to RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. Turns out they're everywhere, from blogs to news sites, and I collect them like beautiful butterflies. Except without ether. Computers are not compatible with any variety of ether.

  So, I've been subscribing to just about every RSS feed I can find. I read security news, friends' blogs, program release feeds, the list goes on – and now I can add one more category.

  While browsing my daily web comics, I noticed that familiar little orange radar-looking icon in my address bar. Le gasp! I could just subscribe to web comics, and they would be delivered to me every time they were updated! This is highly more efficient and sensible than my current method - remembering all of their web addresses and typing them in manually, one by one.

  From now on, my morning routine will be reduced from this:

  • Open web browser
  • Type in "www.questionablecontent.net", read comic
  • Type in "www.explosm.net", read comic
  • Type in "www.ctrlaltdel-online.com", read comic
  • Type in "www.penny-arcade.com", read comic
  • Type in "www.drmcninja.com", read comic
  • Type in "www.vgcats.com", read comic
  • Type in "www.threepanelsoul.com", read comic
  • Type in "www.buttersafe.com", read comic
  • Type in "www.butternutsquash.net", read comic
  • Type in "xkcd.com", read comic
  • Realize I'm going to be late for work and rush to get ready

  ...to the more manageable RSS version:

  • Double-click on Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Close it, reopen Mozilla Thunderbird (I hope they fix the crash-on-open problem in the next version...)
  • Bathe in the glory of web comics delivered straight to me
  • Realize I have yet to actually bathe, and that I am late to work

  See? So much more manageable. Thanks, technology!

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