Minister of Puppetry 

Hil pointed to a puppet feed listing and I immediately wandered off from a link on a MySpace blog to an MSN Groups group called Puppet Ministry. It's about religious education. Alas, it's not about a country that has a cabinet-level position for puppetry. When I have a country, it's going to have a Secretary of Puppetry right up there with Labor and State.

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You know what's really going to make me cry? 

It's the countdown for my older son transferring colleges and moving out. Late May and he's out of here. Of course I'll miss him, probably more than I'm anticipating, but the thought of the brothers separated seems especially sad. The little guy is four and a half years younger. They plan to interact on WoW. I wonder how that will work. Little guy plays Tiger Woods golf online with Skype with my brother and they seem to enjoy it and get some bonding out of it.

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Still can't get the comments subscription list quite right 

This is the OPML file. It validates. It works in Grazr.

But it won't expand in Optimal. NewsRiver... oh wait. NewsRiver didn't like it yesterday but thinks it's just fine today. Does that mean it's more about the constituent feeds than anything I'm doing wrong in making the sub list? Bloglines hated it yesterday, too. I'll see if it's jumped on the bandwagon and loves it now. Nope: "Imported 0 Subscriptions." Haven't run the forum feeds through a validator. I'll try that.

Looks OK except the feedvalidator.org validator thinks the author of each message board post needs an email address. Not many message boards have RSS feeds, so maybe there are bound to be problems. It doesn't seem right to expose every poster to spam, though, does it? But would just that be enough to prevent Bloglines and Optimal from accepting the subscription list the forum feeds are a part of? Here are the forum feeds, if you're inclined to help me puzzle this out: Mine. Hil's.

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Nope, gotta be Grazr that's breaking my back (button) 

Grazr Mike was nice enough to stop by the new comments board and take all my whiney little grazRgripes with good humor. Notice how being on a message board encourages commenters to write longer posts?

I was pretty sure it must have been Grazr that was disabling the Firefox back button, but tested it again this morning just to be double sure. I removed Grazr and the back button worked; put it back and can't back up. XP, Firefox v1.0.7. When I'm trying to back up the status bar displays "Transferring data from api2.grazr.com..."

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