Expand truncated feeds
Posted under: I hate truncated feeds in my reader. After subscribing to a feed that turns out to be truncated I usually end up skipping every single post for a few days and then unsubscribe.
Admittedly I’m oversubscribed (a few hundred items a day) and don’t have time to read everything, and those truncated bastards are first up against the wall. Unless they’re from blogs I really like, hi Red!
I subscribed to a few new blogs recently, and alas they were mickey teasing little truncated fuckers. So I cracked open Google to look for a hack or a plugin, but found nothing. Then I thought “Help me Lifehacker, you are my only hope.” Fired off a quick mail and to my surpsise and delight they had a post the next day. http://lifehacker.com/5523024/google-reader-full-feed-expands-truncated-feeds-with-a-keystroke.
I’m using the Chrome plugin. Didn’t seem to work for me at first, but had to do a computer restart last night and today it was working just fine. I just have to press Z and the truncated posts expand.
That’s that problem solved. Next, world hunger…
Ninja Paxman
The video below is doing the rounds at moment, just because Paxman gets lashed out of it for a change. Call me childish but I find it much more amusing that he’s a ninja for the first 3 seconds.
Free download: My soul
Creepy discarded dolls
I only just discovered that you can view a Flickr search result as a slideshow.
See bigger: http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=creepy+discarded+doll
Joke
Frank and Nuala hobbled out to the front of the nursing home for a smoke. And just then it started to rain.
Frank pulls a condom out of his pocket that has the end cut off.
“What the hell is that for?” cries Nuala.
Frank winks “It’s a little rain mac for my Benson & Hedges” and slides it onto the cigarette while Nuala’s fag gets soaked.
So Nuala waits for the rain to clear and guides her walking frame to the chemist down the road.
“Hi Sonny, box of condoms please” says Nuala to a young guy at the counter.
“Sure, what size?”
“Oh I don’t know….” say’s Nuala confused… “As long as it fits on camel, I’ll be happy”
A legend dies
Derek “Crosaire” Crozier died over the weekend. I made sure to get a paper yesterday and was determined to finish it but alas I didn’t quite make it.
No other crossword comes close to the elegance of the Crosaire. But I stopped doing it a couple of years ago. I couldn’t justify paying 1.80 every day when I just went straight to the Crosaire, and often didn’t look at the rest of the paper. Except for some interest in the art page, the rest of that paper just puts me asleep.
It was such a ritual part of my morning, an OCD ritual; I had that fold down to a tee, black bic at hand (had to be black), all answers in upper case, and a diagonal tick over the number of every solved clue. Doing the online version just didn’t do it for me somehow.
Elsewhere:
- Tributes flow as ‘genius’ crossword-setter dies
- O’brien press have a Crosaire book.
- Derek Crozier bio on a Crosaire blog
My attempt from yesterday
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