Dryice Liu’s Blog

Google reader won’t follow 301

Well I said some time ago that I use mod_redirect while migrating from pyblosxom to wordpress. It turns out not all the RSS readers are following a 301 redirct. At least for the one I’m using, Google Reader, won’t do this. So now all my subscribers would think I no longer write blogs
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¶ Posted 04 September 2007 § wordpress ‡ Comments (0)

google reader

Google has updated their RSS reader recently. Many reviewers on the net said this makes it “more like a traditional reader”. I agree.
However, Google provides some unique featers. The one I like most is the keyboard shortcut. This makes the reading much convience. I can even pick with channel to read by keyboard!
Thinking about moving […]

¶ Posted 11 October 2006 § misc ‡ Comments (0)

rnews 0.72 and 0.63

Well the current version (0.72) of rnews got some problem on charactor support and I think it’s in the magpierss package come with it or the interface between these two. The current magpierss should fixed this cause there’s no problem with /usr/ports/www/feedonfeeds, another PHP+Mysql server side rss aggregator.
So I’ll stay around with the current version […]

¶ Posted 24 March 2005 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

the choice of rss reader

Well I’m a lazy person and don’t want to start another app to see the rss feeds. And I’m on FreeBSD with apache installed so I perfer a server side rss aggregator.
Browsing the FreeBSD ports tree I have several choices: /usr/ports/deskutils/checkrdf, /usr/ports/www/rnews, /usr/ports/news/rawdog, and /usr/ports/www/amphetadesk.
I use checkrdf before. However it is written by a language […]