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Twitterings

12/13/2007 – 6:04 pm

You might have already noticed, but I finally hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon. You can see my latest tweets in the sidebar (it’s the “What I’m Doing” section), and I currently have it auto-posting a daily summary here on the blog (courtesy of the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Community, Plugins, Services, WordPress | Also tagged alexking, plugin, Plugins, SocialNetworks, tweets, twitter, twittertools, WordPress | Comments (26)

WordPress 2.2 Delayed

4/19/2007 – 1:03 pm

A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer “big” new features in each release. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Atom, delicious, Feeds, Flickr, plugin, Plugins, Releases, Tags, Technorati, WordPress | Comments (16)

Alabama Tornadoes

3/2/2007 – 5:51 pm

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Family, Personal, The South | Also tagged Alabama, Feeds, Google, Tornado, Tornadoes, Weather, Wiregrass, yahoo | Comments (9)

An Air Miles Experiment

9/12/2006 – 12:58 pm

Several years ago I went on a work-related trip on American Airlines (side note: holy cow! they have RSS feeds!). I don’t travel much, but on a whim, I signed up for their AAdvantage program. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community | Also tagged Business, Experiments, Feeds, Free, Memes, Travel | Comments (3)

links for 2006-03-31

3/30/2006 – 7:26 pm

Emil Sit Â» WordPress ETag bug

Geof, Alex, Scot, and I have been looking into this Conditional GET bug, but Emil found the culprit first.

(tags: dougal_comments wordpress rss feeds conditionalget bugs)

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged Feeds, WordPress | Comments (1)

links for 2006-03-28

3/27/2006 – 7:35 pm

Mercurial - Mercurial

Interesting. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged Programming | Comments (0)

Zeldman on WordPress

3/9/2006 – 3:55 pm

Web guru extraordinaire, Jeffrey Zeldman, has spent the last 11 years hand-coding his web site and RSS feeds. No more –Zeldman has switched to WordPress. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, PHP, Web, WordPress | Comments (4)

Feedlounge is live

1/25/2006 – 5:52 pm

This is old news now, but what the heck — I haven’t posted in a while, and this will be quick. In case you didn’t already know, FeedLounge, that fantabulous online feed reader that all the Cool Kids have been raving about, is out of testing and ready for the world. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Services, Syndication | Also tagged FeedLounge, Feeds | Comments (9)

The State of FeedLounge

12/5/2005 – 11:25 am

Alex has posted a moderately detailed article explaining The State of FeedLounge. For any newcomers who don’t know what FeedLounge is, it’s a web based feed aggregator, not unlike BlogLines. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Atom, Syndication | Also tagged Aggregators, Ajax, FeedLounge, Feeds, Web | Comments (10)

Breaking the silence

11/23/2005 – 2:03 pm

Between projects at work (rolling out the largest indoor WiFi network in the world at a certain international airport near Atlanta) and projects at home (building more IKEA furniture — bed, dresser, chest, entertainment center, end tables, ottomans; doing what I can to help Suze prepare for Thanksgiving), I haven’t had much time for posting lately. [...]