While I was doing a little research on RSS I ran into the SpamBayes port for Outlook by Mark Hammond. You can find more info on SpamBayes at spambayes.sourceforge.net/. Mark's installer is at starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes/. I am running it with ActiveState Python and Outlook 2002.

On Friday I decided to go ahead and code up an RSS manually for legacy farm. While I was at it I coded up both a 1.0 and 2.0 version. I started out with the RSS from the Legacy Farm category and stripped out the Userland specific stuff. I verified the feeds with the RSS Validator. I added the feed to subscriptions to check out. I will probably look briefly at using Python to generate the RSS and xhtml snippets.

Jon Lithgow. “Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.” [Quotes of the Day]

William Goldman. “Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.” [Quotes of the Day]

Jason Cook: Sharing Your Site with RSS

Nice article with good links to other tutorials on RSS. I did not find my magic bullet but I have a couple more ideas. I tested out my other website to see which version of PHP it had installed and found out that it did not have php installed. My ISP is willing to upgrade my service to the “Advanced” for an extra $30/month. Although I am only paying about $17/month for web hosting, there are plenty of web hosting programs that offer many more features for a lower monthly cost.

Allan Goldfein. “Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.” [Quotes of the Day]

Yesterday I took a little detour and played with Jedit. Jedit is an open source text editor with a variety of plugins. I was checking out the tidy and xml plugins. It is cheaper alternative to topstyle but with a lot less features. I reread the Udell post a couple of times to figure out exactly what he was trying to do and what he accomplished. Jedit is nice but I think that htmlarea and htmltidy is the direction I should pursue.

The subject of the post is xhtml is RSS feeds but the meat of the post is producting valid XHTML in a weblog. This is a subject I have been interested in for several months. It really is a couple of subjects which revolve around creating XHTML in Radio. The MSHTML editor in the IE browser is at the core of the problem. It is easy to use but it creates non-xhtml html code in wyswig mode and their is no way to modify its behavior. Htmlarea is a partial solution. This post talks about using TIDY to transform a post to XHTML. Everything is migrating to a lightweight wyswig editor that produces valid xhtml.

Cincinnati got drenched today. We had a lot of flooding and the area remains under a flood watch since we are due for more rain. I guess we should be grateful. So many places have suffered from tornadoes. It took me a couple of hours to pick up my son at his sleep over. The rode was flooded going to the house. It reminded of the rains we would get when we lived in Houston.

I have noticed a new flurry of opinions about CSS versus table debate. The latest essay is by Tim Bray at ongoing. The general idea is to separate data from the code that displays it. Some of the problems are:

1. Browser compatibility with the standards is at the core of many of the problems.
2. Some web pages are easier to do with tables.
3. CSS is evolving and backward compatibility remains a problem.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
Joseph Chilton Pearce