Andrew Wilkinson ([info]andrew_j_w) wrote,
@ 2006-08-17 15:35:00
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Entry tags:gp2x, guildford, personal

End Of An Era
I had my last ever haircut from Campus Ken today. He's been cutting my hair for six years, and he's always done a good job (i.e. I don't really have to say anything and I come out looking neat and tidy). Today we had a quite interesting discussion about The Inn Way walk, which he is planning to do and I did a month or so ago.

The fact that I'm now saying things like 'This is the last time I'll do X' quite often is making me sad as York is the place where I've lived for the second longest amount of time, and it has felt like it was my home for most of that. Despite not really enjoying living here over the past couple of months, I will be sad when leaving.

In geeky news I have started a new blog, here, where I will be posting about my programming exploits for the GP2x. Unfortunately Livejournal does have the features I wanted (time-delayed posting and RSS feeds for tags), so I was forced to find another solution. Besides, I don't think the majority of the people who read this blog would be very interested in quite specific technical posts. I like having a topic to blog about, rather than random "here's what I've done recently" posts. Hopefully I can keep this new blog going for a fair while before I inevitably get bored of it and move onto something else :-)




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[info]scaryjeff
2006-08-17 03:07 pm UTC (link)
I've actually got a .php file I use that logs into LiveJournal and gives me an RSS feed for my friends page. (My aggregator does the logging in.. so not just anyone can get the .xml link and get access to my friend's friends-locked posts.) I'm sure it can be adapted to provide an RSS feed for specific tags quite easily. But I guess you've got your fancy new wordpress blog now though. :)

*adds the GP2x blog rss feed to his list*

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[info]andrew_j_w
2006-08-17 03:12 pm UTC (link)
I initially tried using this site to provide an RSS feed for my tags, but it doesn't work that well seeing as it's basically just a filter on the main RSS fee.

The biggest thing I wanted was time-delayed posts so I can keep a regular update to the blog, but prepare things in advance. I'm going to try and update my GP2x blog every Tuesday and Thursday, and I've already got next Tuesday's post written so it'll now magically appear on time without me doing anything.

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[info]dwinsper
2006-08-17 06:03 pm UTC (link)
What's really needed is a more comprehensive tag filtering system for people on your friends list. Being able to say "everything but X" is really what you want people to be able to do.

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[info]andrew_j_w
2006-08-17 06:23 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that'd be excellent. Not sure how easy a system like that would be for the LJ-masses to use though.

I suspect that the vast majority of Livejournal users don't tag their posts in such a way that would make it useable.

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[info]dwinsper
2006-08-17 06:30 pm UTC (link)
it's not really a feature for the masses, though, it's more for people who have a real need for that feature.

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