Sponsored wifi 

I wonder if anybody's ever thought of offering wifi to places like dentists' offices or car dealerships or other places where people have to wait? If their business was too small to justify the expense, they could get it for free if they agreed to make their patients/customers/clients submit to some kind of ad. The ad could be targeted to the establishment, like new cars would be advertised to people waiting to get their cars fixed. Of course if whole cities are getting wirelessed, it's a scheme that couldn't last too long.

Or not 

Still mumbling to myself. I wonder if I can take this off the changes page. It's a bunch of nonsense. What if I gave up the feed output idea altogether and used the CF authentication for the members site, then refreshed to the blog on the Linux box. Or, what about iframe. It's pretty widely supported now. But then I still have the problem of hiding the member content from nonmembers. Maybe I just make it unsearchable and that would be good enough. Did we ever determine that our Verity search will use the existing robots.txt files? Well then that was a big waste of time. No it wasn't. I can use the feed2js for other things.

New feed2js 

Never mind this entry much, I'm just talking to myself and making notes and seeing how these javascript includes get output. Installed the new feed2js and the new Magpie. Trying out with the different feed formats. I can't figure out what the parser is looking for that the RSS 2.0 feed doesn't seem to have. Maybe it's something about the way Expression Engine generates the feed, and has nothing to do with feed2js or the way I have it set up.

This is the Atom feed. It's the only one I can get to output the full text. How am I going to do the sections? Feed for each and an include for each? But I'd have to specify the number of items every week? No, I could still archive items in EE, but have the feed only display the current week's items. Sitill foggy on how I'll hide the blog from everybody but members. Protect everything except the feed, I guess. Wonder how EE writes the feed elsewhere. Or I could set up two instances of it, one protected and one not, using the same ee tables. And just don't output any HTML for the unprotected one?

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Wandered off 

Found a nice Flash slide show when I was really looking for something else.

I thought I was looking for is an already-made Cold Fusion tag that displays an RSS feed. Then I thought I might be able to use one in ASP, but now I think I'll do the feed2js thing I've used before.

I guess mine's out of date. Have to get the new script. Oh, it does have an option already to output the full feed.

The illustration on Maricopa's feed2js page reminds me a little of Hil's Fun Person Siphon. I was once accused of siphoning off all the fun people from the AUSTEN-L list. She was going to come over here and try a blog. I'd like to see what she makes of OPML.