Monthly Archives: February 2007

I never thought I’d be happy about debt

So, I just got off the phone with the mortgage consultant that works with our buyer’s agent. We had filled out some info for a good faith estimate/pre-approval a few days ago, since we’re looking to move on a home slightly faster than we’d originally thought we would. I have to say, I’m stoked.

This is supposed to be simple, right?

So, I’ve been spending more time working on coming up with my own feed aggregator. I’ve learned some pretty interesting things so far, as well as just how FUBAR RSS and Atom happen to be. You’d think that this would all be somewhat simple, and in an ideal world, it probably would. This is the [...]

Putting my money where my mouth is

So, having complained about console feed readers, I’ve decided to put up or shut up. Or put my moneycode where my mouth is. A few months before I wrote the last article, I’d started playing a little bit with ruby-feedparser. Then I promptly forgot about it, as other more pressing matters came up.

Package Tracking Sucks

All the major package carriers, even the USPS, offers some form of package tracking. They all work slightly differently, and all have their plusses and minuses, but they all suck. Why? It doesn’t have to be that way, if only they’d make an effort to provide more visibility into routing information that most of them [...]