I haven’t written anything interesting lately.
I was going in circles with my checking email, reading news and journals, and organizing my home directory (I got it so it’s mostly just tons of directories now *sigh*). So I decided I needed a new project. In light of all the RSS Feed icons I’ve been seeing lately, and an RSS discussion at the last Philly Chix meeting, I set out to rationalize learning all about RSS feeds. They’re everywhere these days, and although I thought it might waste more of my time daily, I do spend a bit of time browsing news and personal sites that have rss feeds, so I’d probably save time AND get more information if it’s all centralized. See, that wasn’t too hard. So I began my as yet unfinished quest to find a good rss feed reader.
First I tried newsmonster, which was developed to live inside mozilla. Well I couldn’t even get it to connect to the sites, and I really wanted a stand alone thing anyway. I tried liverea because it was in emerge and although it was masked I decided to take a chance with it since it only had two dependencies. Well it works great in the beginning, but then:
Connecting to www.xanga.com…
Downloading http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=princessleia2…
Segmentation fault
I tried to add a few more feeds and it kept Seg faulting. No wonder it was masked! So I looked at straw, 32 dependencies! I poked emerge to install it and went to shower and grab food, came back a bit later and started it up. It worked great, I was quite happy with it, then I tried to click on a link to open up a browser for where the feed was from, no go. I enabled more info about the posts, tried to click on the site to open a browser, I get a Gnome Preferences error. I googled for this a bit, but had little luck.. I might look more if it seems like this is my only good option for an rss reader. So I’m still looking. Also looking for cool rss feeds, so if you know of any cool ones, I’d really be interested %)
So now I’m going to go look for more readers or try to fix straw… *wanders off*