Friday's Notes
I've had Rush's Greatest Hits CD in the car since I bought it. My son's first favorite Rush song was "Limelight". Now he asks for "Mean Mean Stride". ;)
Interesting news this week. A company named FineArch has announced an Ogg Vorbis hardware platform for portable players. I wonder what might set it apart from the hardware that drives the Neuros player, which now has beta Ogg Vorbis support and appears to be feature-laden.
I've been following some of the discussion about a successor to the RSS 2.0 format for weblog syndication (as well as a complete API for interacting with a weblog). At this point, it looks like it will be called "Atom", and a draft specification has been made. Based on Sam Ruby's comments, I've created a beta Atom feed for this site, based on Dean's work on an RSS 2.0 feed for Squishdot. I'm currently reviewing the Squishdot code to see if I can provide the most accurate values for the different Atom elements. Once I'm happy with where I'm at, I'll publish the code I have. I don't know that anyone else has jumped on this - if you have and you're reading this, let me know and we can share the work.
Seeing a great concert always inspires me to pick up the guitar or bass and make some noise - I'm glad the weekend's here so I can take some time to do that. Have a good one.