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WordPress and RSS feeds

Consider this a public announcement. A number of friends have made the jump to WordPress in recent weeks. Unfortunately this has broken their RSS and Atom feeds. The feeds return a 404 file not found error code when you try to load the pages. So livejournal, bloglines, netnewswire, pulp fiction and any number of other RSS aggregators can no longer follow the sites.

Only one of the WordPress sites I read managed to avoid the problem. Not only did he avoid it but he even sets Last-Modified and ETag headers. Be still my beating heart!

New Host

This is the first post on gnumatt.org from my new host DreamHost.

I feel weird about this because this is the first time I’ve ever hosted somewhere I didn’t run the servers. Ever since I started working at ISPs in 1994 I’ve always been the sysadmin for the servers that I hosted my stuff on. In 2000 I started buying my own rackspace and bandwidth since I couldn’t host at the place I worked.

Ships, Shirts and Work

One of my co-workers asked us to grab a t-shirt for him as part of some social clothing experiment. The shirts came in today. I grabbed Consumable for Bryan and Flowers in the Attic for myself.

Culture alive and kicking in DFW

I went to the third Conspirator’s Ball last night with Andrew and his friend Christina. The event is there to survey folks about Dallas’ cultural life, and provide an open venue for venting. The venting is mostly of the liberal political nature. The evening was filled with poetry from Clebo Rainey and various others from the audience.

I found the most provocative speakers were Dean from alt7.com and Chris from keep Dallas plastic. Both of them understood the need to build up an audience for Dallas’ existing cultural creatives. Or maybe I’m just hearing what I want to hear from what they said since that’s one of my personal goals now that I’m back in Dallas.

The Right Christian

I’ve been intrigued by the Ashley Smith hostage scenario. Brian Nichols broke out of an Atlanta courthouse after killing three people and vanished. He then took Ashley Smith hostage in her apartment. As the story goes she defused the situation by reading from A Purpose Driven Life and being very brave and responsive to her kidnapper’s situation.

It’s moments like this, the small person-to-person moments, when organized religions like Christianity are at their very best. The power of forgiveness, love thy neighbor, Something breaks when you scale them up to bureaucratic, political behemoths.

Fun new things

Growth

A friend took this picture of me at the end of July in 2004. It’s from a field of kudzu near the Sock Capital of the World, Fort Payne, Alabama.

I feel like I’ve grown a lot already this year.

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