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Shannon Clark, Meshforum At a cafe, talking about Meshforum in Chicago in May, also meeting up with my sister in law. Ben and Nick's Bar and Grill, 5612 College Ave, Oakland CA 94618 Two guys with laptops in front. Wifi is a "Belkin Pre-N" which has signal but no Internet link. BART, Millbrae -> Rockridge No problems. Nice to sit on the train and send a few emails with the Blackberry. T-Mobile service around here in general seems pretty spotty - there were dead zones on Caltrain, and some unexpected dead zones in Oakland near the BART stations there. Service OK at Rockridge though. Caltrain, San Antonio Caught it with 6 minutes to spare. Larry Magid is trying to track down the exact orderable part number for the USB DSP dongle that was bundled in my Plantronics headset that we kludged into an ultraportable recording studio. The driver for the Mac recognizes it as a "Plantronics Headset", so clearly it's not just some generic part, but there are no other identifying marks. I'll google it when I get back to the net. VTA Route 40, Mountain View Caught it with 2 minutes to spare. Get off at Shadows to get to the Caltrain station, saves a hike. The bus driver said I could have also connected to Route 35 which would have gone to the Mountain View Caltrain station w/no walking needed. Google Building 41 I signed an NDA. Lunch was nice. Thanks to Marius and Niels for hosting, and it was good to meet Ben and Jen. VTA Route 40, Mountain View Kind of a hike. Head towards the Walmart from the station. Caltrain station, Palo Alto. Arrived with three minutes to spare. Burning a Feedburner feed for this blog. Thanks to Feedburner's Rick Klau I'm going to be adding a Feedburner feed for this blog. First hurdle: the RSS feed doesn't want to validate. Feed Validator for Vacuum OPML Blog complained that managingEditor and webMaster tags both need valid email addresses. I'm sure there's a way to update those somewhere in the configuration. Second hurdle: error message from Feedburner: The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 9: The element type "br" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". (This when I tried to burn the feed by putting in the blog URL, not the feed URL, and using auto-discovery.) Hurdles overcome by putting in the RSS url directly and not using auto-discovery. I set up the feed as http://feeds.feedburner.com/Vielmetti-Vacuum-OPML and it seems to work fine so far. Next step is to update the blog template. Community, "your OPML weblog", "open template". Look for the snippet that says %xmlIcon%. (wonder out loud about other ways to do interpolation from a dictionary, but don't dive deep on that now). Go into Feedburner, go to Feed Count, build a chicklet, paste it in, rebuild. Works first time through. Turn on Total Stats Pro so I get detail, and paste in a new icon. <%xmlIcon%> is the old icon if I need to go back.To do: implement the necessary XML-RPC ping to force an update immediately when the RSS uploads - this should be a small task. Whee! Zero Subscribers! How many IM sessions can you have running at once? I'm trying the process of having a half dozen IM sessions going at once, in part because I just realized that morning Pacific / early afternoon Eastern is a good time of day to talk to people across the US and Canada. This would have been impossibly hard to do before I started to run Desktop Manager because there would have been too many things going on at once. Now I can sequester Adium to its own desktop and just focus or defocus as need be without overlapping windows. At Coupa Cafe, Palo Alto CA. Agenda for the day: morning in Palo Alto, Caltrain and VTA to Google for lunch, VTA back to Caltrain to BART to Berkeley for dinner. We'll see just how well transit works out. I'm sure it would have been faster to rent a car, but I like figuring out local maps. Leave Palo Alto Caltrain on the 11:03 southbound, arrive San Antonio 11:11, walk to San Antonio Transit Center, take Route 40 11:30am northbound, arrive Charleston and Shoreline 11:46, walk to Google. OPML Editor is stuck. It's not posting the files I save for some reason. Digging into debug as best I can. Closing and restarting the application fixed things. Thanks to Les Orchard for being on IM at the right time to help me think through this. |
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