A not inconsiderable part of iPod skins is to look cool, I'm sure.

Besides, you gotta have a skin to match your chainmail bikini....

eta: But the site did say that new versions of the chainmail skin would have a lining in the inside to prevent scratching....

Turns out bloglines didn't like the extension. Now that I've done a ForceType so I can name the php file .rss, it looks fine.

Next question -- I want to use htaccess to redirect calls to subdir/rss.xml to /index.rss (which is really php). What directive do I need in the subdir/.htaccess? I won't need to change /.htaccess (which already does the ForceTyping just fine) will I?

I do not want objects talking to me. That creeps me right the fuck out.

Yup. Yesterday, our marketing assistant walked away from her Mac after setting up a print job. There was a printer error, and the frelling thing started announcing the error to the entire office, scaring our receptionist.

I really hate Steve Jobs.

If they talk to me, and I need to listen, they need to be able to understand me speaking.

Macs come with a rudimentary voice-recognition thingie. (It only recongnized commands, so you still need to buy software if you want to convert speech to text.)

I really have no use for it, but it's fun to say, "Computer, tell me a joke." And then it does.

Beau has printing software that says: "printing started" and "Printing completed"

I HATE IT. I always look up and think "who is that strange man in my house commenting on printing?"

I turned on spoken alerts once. I turned them off five minutes later.

ION, b.org looks cool in Pocket IE. For some reason the user titles are bigger than the notmal text. It's fun.

ita wrote:

Next question -- I want to use htaccess to redirect calls

This will do the trick (in subdir/.htaccess):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /rss.xml
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.rss [L,R,NC]

Actually, I just went with

redirect /rss/rss.xml >[link]

And it looks okay. Is there a client usability difference between the two?

And it looks like I spoke too soon for Bloglines -- is anyone familiar enough with the RSS standard that they can tell me if the file itself is being checked for a last changed time? Or is it bloglines that's working it's own way?

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