To The Dancin’ Fool

Jeremy… Jeremias… Cappy G… Mr. Biggs… Whatever you want to call him, wish him a happy birthday!

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I’m happy to have been friends with Jeremy for four years now. From being apartmentmates in Tavilla Hall at Gordon to being apartmentmates after graduation in Woburn, from having him in my wedding, to having been in his wedding, from discussing theology in the morning to blowing each other up playing Unreal Tournament at night, from walking to his room fifty feet across the apartment at Gordon, to driving to his apartment two hours away in Hyannis just to watch a TV show. Here’s to you, man.

Georgie’s Homework

Looks like Dubya just completed his fifth grade cultural awareness assignment. Just goes to show that a Yale education encyclopedia is still good for something in this day and age!

Topix

Some of you may be familiar with Topix, either through Bloglines or otherwise. If you’re not, you should check it out. Simply go to this page and enter a city, state, zip, or click on the map to find a locality. Topix uses some pretty cool proprietary technology to automatically track and collect news items for any given locality, pulling in data from area news sources, government sites, etc. In Boston, for example, you’d get local news from the Boston Herald, Boston Globe and news releases from CityofBoston.gov. In Beverly, we get news from the Beverly Citizen, Lynn Daily Item, Gloucester Times, Salem News, etc. You can sign up to get email alerts for your chosen city, and you can even subscribe to an RSS feed. I use the RSS feed with my Bloglines newsreader to get news updates for Townsend, Beverly, Oak Bluffs, and Mount Vernon.

Check it out!

Pumpkiny Chocolatey Deliciousness

Becky has proven once again that the fastest way to a man’s heart (literally and figuratively) is through his stomach. Tonight for dinner she made pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes. Mmmmmmmm. So… good…

Not So Much Snow

There wasn’t quite so much snow on my car today…

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…as there was one year ago today…

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Yes, today is the anniversary of last year’s fantastically huge Nor’easter. We got a light dusting at most, but sadly nothing more than that is in the forecast for the next week or so. We only have the photos from last year to dream of. Here’s hoping for a white Christmas!

New Feeds

I’ve added some new feeds and modified existing feeds, so please check out the list below to make sure that you’re subscribed to exactly the right feeds for you.

Note that I’ve removed the annoying comment count from the RSS feeds, so if you want to be notified of new comments, you’ll either have to subscribe to the fulltext + comments feed, or the comments only feed.

Also note that the previous link to the comments only feed from the bottom of the page was incorrect, so if you had previously tried to subscribe to it using that link, give it another try.

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RSS 2.0: Blog Entry Excerpts RSS 2.0: Blog Entry Fulltext RSS 2.0: Blog Entry Fulltext + Comments RSS 2.0: Blog Comments Only Atom: Blog Entries Fulltext RSS 2.0: Clip Blog

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Enjoy, and please let me know if you find any problems with the feeds!

P.S. This list can also be found at the bottom of all of our pages, as well as in the header of each document (so it should show up, for example, in Firefox’s feed detector).

WeatheRSS

First, there was the news. Then, there were traffic reports. Now, the National Weather Service offers current conditions, forecasts, warnings, and more. Pretty soon, it’s likely that I’ll never have to leave my aggregator again.

Full-text RSS?

Currently, we offer an RSS feed with excerpts from our blog entries, and an RSS feed with the most recent comments for all entries on the blog. Would anyone be interested in a full-text RSS feed for our blog, which would include both the complete text of blog entries and the complete text of the comments on each entry?

Feeds can be used to read new items from blogs and news sites in one central application, such as a web-based aggregator like Bloglines, or a desktop aggregator like NetNewsWire.