Trying out a new RSS Aggregator

I've been messing around with Dave Winer's new href="http://feeds.scripting.com">OPML sharing site and adding a
bunch of feeds to href="http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk">Amphetadesk/AmphetaOutline.
For some reason it isn't showing a bunch of sites as having new news
(come on, nothing from fark.com in 3
hours!?)

This evening on got some email from the author of href="http://liferea.sourceforge.net">liferea who said he had
fixed a problem with the HTTP headers of my server and recommended
trying out the version (0.4.7) from CVS. It works! Thanks Lars!

So, I'm going to switch for a week to liferea exclusively and see how
that goes.

One thing that I'm going to miss is one click to add a feed from href="http://feeds.scripting.com">feeds.scripting.com to my
aggregator. I don't see how liferea could insinuate itself into the
mix.

Pictures from last night's John Kerry event in Merrimack

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The 'Jim Dinner for America' team (a parody website, dinnerforamerica.com. Think DeanForAmerica.com) was there and recording interviews (07 Jan
2004)


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John Kerry serving yummy, non-Atkins-friendly, chili at the Merrimack VFW (0
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Crowd at the event. Probably 300 people.(07 Jan 2004)


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John Kerry stumpin' (07 Jan 2004)


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More John Kerry stumpin' (07 Jan 2004)


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More John Kerry stumpin' (07 Jan 2004)


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More John Kerry stumpin' (07 Jan 2004)


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More John Kerry stumpin' (07 Jan 2004)


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John Kerry and former NH Governor Jeanne Shaheen (07 Jan 2004)


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John Kerry after speech talking with folks (07 Jan 2004)


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John Kerry signing autographs for the Spencer/Griffin/Trevor (07 Jan 2004)b>


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Nozell/Thomas family with John Kerry (07 Jan 2004)


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Spencer with Jeanne Shaheen and John Kerry (07 Jan 2004)

John Kerry event with Chili at Merrimack, NH VFW hall

Man a long event! We got there at 7 and left around 9:30! The kids
were well behaved but tired. I have scratched notes on my palm pilot,
but translation to english and blogging it will have to wait until
tomorrow.

Highlights:

* very good, but non-Atkins, chili
* Mostly middle age, middle/upper middle class income crowd
* warmed up the crowd with a couple of jokes
* rude female heckler interruped a few times (education, taxes, why
did you Kerry & Sheehen do more when in office) who left early
* mostly well rounded stump speech, number of promises if elected,
executive orders, fair tax code, health care for all, military,
jobs, jobs, jobs, oil dependancy -> fund hydrogen
research/development, etc.
* NH Voters for me because only I can beat Bush, don't use your vote
to 'make a point'
* our 12 yr old had the last question "What makes you different from
all the other candidates?" (a surprise to my wife and I who didn't
prompt him)
* afterwards chatted up Kerry's literal coat holder about Bush's
immigration policy announcement (Kerry didn't mention it) and that
our particular issues were public education/special education and
civil liberties. He also dragged Kerry over for a picture with the
family.


On the way home Wendy and I talked about whether 'voting to make a
point' is the right thing to do to have someone beat Bush, so I guess
Kerry did his job.

For the brave, here are my notes directly from the palm pilot...

-----

Kerry
jeane
cold - cheny
dont see to mulh  - comp conserj
fire fight
  $ in irhq - not in us
 not bush lite - not lite mil/fair midh
dress up bush
loss jobs
def
  $ unfair
lobby - polut - big Bus  - big Ag
money   - to  law
misson accomdlishe
pcc
lay off gwb
no pac $
money cink uotes
right to living wage
tyco - corporate mug ameaic
some on enaon in jail
tax code     -no ins to move overssas
vision
write exe order   no  lobby 5yr
all meetng - w lob official record
truman vision - health care for all - personal - prost cured
bro of teacher - #what have you done# - bush cut a deal 
repub to vote
nice spin - this dem
bush no  $ in no child
will fullh fund no child (40 sped)
aud- mih age
no hostage youn die  to mid oil
more 500m jobs - hydrogen 
war
lose nukes - global warm - book : new war - over extended mil  need work with o
thers 
some want to raise tax
nat sec
who can beat gwb - dont just send mgg
jobs
harry sherr  from harvard center?
Q1- health care - salary - for profit
kids covere 
q2  - dave - 
tax on rich - fed pay catastric - 1000 tax cut
q3 - russian democacacy on decline trust russia
q4  how win? Buildinq momemti
fighter
gwb/rove  - standup to bush

John Kerry is hosting a Chili dinner at the Merrimack VFW tonight 7pm

Last night we got an automated message ("press 1 if you are planning
on attending") from ex-NH Governor Jean Shaheen inviting me to John
Kerry's chili meet-n-greet this evening.

The whole family will be there. Expect a write up and pictures later
this evening.

Damn Blog writeback spammers

The bastards started spamming my writebacks with links to their site.
I've disabled writebacks for the time being, just email your comments
using the link below.

Dave Winer's latest experiment -- Sharing OPMLs

Cruise over to href="http://feeds.scripting.com">feeds.scripting.com and check
out his new hack of sharing/aggregating/exploring of OPMLs (aka XML
formatted list of RSS/XML/RDF/etc feeds)

If you are using AmphetaDesk, go
to the 'Coffee Mug Prefs' section and change the template to be this:

http://127.0.0.1:8888/index.html?add_url=[[xmlUrl]]

and you can just click on the coffee mug and have it automatically
added to *your* AmphetaDesk OPML.

Trying out various RSS clients

Tonight I've been playing around with various GNU/Linux-based RSS
clients.

* liferea v0.4.5
C-based, gnome interface, Three paned interface, read in either the
pane or click to load in a browser. Over all pretty nice but
occasional hangs and some RSS that validate aren't recognised (like
mine). If would be helpful to give a clue why it wasn't accepted.
It doesn't import my amphetadesk opml file.
* rssowl v0.63b
Java-based with SWT graphics libraries so it looks more like a
modern GUI, three paned interface. No way to import opml files at
the moment, it is only alpha quality release, so that is
understandable. It comes with a nice list of RSS feeds. This app
does parse my RSS feed, but displayes the HTML markup in the reading
area.
* syndigator v0.12
perl-based with GTK/Gnome style interface. Imported my amphetadesk
opml and parsed my RSS feed. Like rssowl, sometimes it displays
HTML in the text. Hmm, perhaps it is blosxom's RSS output that needs
looking at. It still seems a bit young in in the GUI -- the
keyboard access is a bit lacking and while updating feeds is laggy.



There best of the crop so far is liferea, but I may stick with the
web-based/perl amphetadesk (with
amphetaoutline theme) for a while longer. Anyone have some
suggestions?