Blog Turbulence

Published in General on Tuesday, May 4th, 2004

An update on the status of the evolution of the fiftyfoureleven.com weblog script.

Well, for the few who do visit this site (me, myself and one other person, I think) some things to note:

So for the visitors who aren't either me or my colleagues, thanks for coming by, please stick it out, and feel free to share any ideas or observations...

Comments and Feedback

Hey Mike, the site is looking really nice! Very polished.

You know, I hadn't even realized you had been writing stuff lately because you're not in my Firefox RSS reader (which I've switched to using to see what sites have been updated recently) - any chance of an RSS feed in the future?

Hey Jennifer, thanks for the kind words!

Funny you should ask about an RSS feed. I put one together yesterday but haven't yet tried it out in a reader. It validates, so I imagine it should be fine. Give it a try!

Fiftyfoureleven RSS 2.0 feed.

Hmm.. The comment validator is giving me some grief. We'll have to fix that tomorrow...

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