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Welcome to the blog of a philanthropist, astrologer, japanophile, webdesigner, proud ICT generalist and student aiming for a masters degree in work and organisation / occupational health psychology. Discover my world, some of the things that keep me entertained, how our minds work and how our minds are put to work.

28 Mar 2011

Look mom, no pipes!

Since SnowMyth went :pissedoff: on me I went geek. I just couldn’t stop until I found a solution. I’m still thinking about whether I would *want* to implement it, but in this case it might be interesting. The plaintiff (XD) uses iGoogle to read my blog and often clicks the header link to go to my page. However, once you use Yahoo Pipes the original feed address is changed accordingly, which results in the header link now taking her to Yahoo Pipes instead. Golly, I thought people only clicked articles. lol.

So what did I find out?
:smug:

Feedburner offers a Title/Description change option, but it doesn’t allow overwriting the XML link tag. I knew about an RSS Aggregator called SimplePie. I used it to blast protected entries in the public domain in the past (you did not read that). SimplePie is not a tool for creating RSS, but there are people that have found ways to do it anyways. The script I found that works can be found here.

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28 Nov 2010

Media catalog update

Because I’m awesome like that, spent some time improving my “Asian Media Catalog”. It used to be named “Jmedia” but since KPOP also appeared I decided a different name. This thing is also the base for the Downloads Master Post on top of my blog here. You could call it the “light version”. ^o^ On the theme I’m running now it didn’t quite adjust to it too well but poo, don’t want to fix it.

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