The Tech Blog of Ken

Xanga RSS feeds now work in NNW

If you are like me, you have several misguided, non-geeky friends who have blogs on Xanga (the AOL of the blogosphere), and at some point you've probably thought it was really annoying that they didn't have an RSS feed or even know or care what an RSS feed is. I feel your pain. Turns out that Xanga has supported RSS for a while now, but the feeds are broken - they don't validate. The latest beta version of NetNewsWire 2 (b20?) now manages to read the broken feeds.

Xanga doesn't do much to publicize their RSS feeds, but all you have to do is change the "home" in the URL to "rss".

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=someuser

becomes

http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=someuser

hello world!

Hello world!  After about a six month hiatus, I'm back to the world of geek blogging.  My old blog (The Tech Blog of Ken) went down when the server I was hosting on had a hard disk failure.  Everything was backed up, of course, but for various reasons I didn't get it running again.

FWIW, don't ever buy a Seagate OEM drive from Newegg because if the drive fails, it turns out that you're the OEM and are responsible for the warranty repairs.  Spend the extra few bucks and buy the retail version - you'll get the superb 5 year Seagate warranty.

It's going to look pretty plain around here while I get back into the blogging groove.