[Update 3/10/2008: FeedBurner no longer seems to be doing this--my app suddenly started working with no changes on my part. Odd.]

When I try to access a FeedBurner feed from my Flex app, FeedBurner decides to hand me an HTML version of the feed, instead of, you know, the frickin' feed. Of course, if I go to the same URL in Firefox, it gives me the right thing. What do I have to do to get FeedBurner to realize that I actually want XML?

[Addendum: I know I can append "?format=xml" to the URL, and I guess I could just automatically add that onto any URLs I get from FeedBurner. But if I go to the base URL from Firefox, FeedBurner knows how to hand it XML; I want to figure out how it's doing that, so my feedreader will work with other sites that try to do the same trick (I've noticed at least one other site doing it).]

Tags: geek, inter-nets[tm], lazyweb

Dear Professor Lazyweb,

Let's say that, for some stupid reason, I'm thinking of implementing Yet Another Blog-Aggregator-Type Thingy that I want to work with most blogs and syndication feeds that exist today. Which formats do I need to support? RSS 0.91? RSS 1.0? RSS 2.0? Atom? Others?

(I know I probably also want to support OPML for importing a list of feeds as well.)

Regards,

nj

Tags: geek, inter-nets[tm], lazyweb

People finally discover one reason why paying lots of real money for objects in a virtual world is stupid.

Tags: geek, idiocy, inter-nets[tm]

Having finally gone through and tagged all my lj posts (though I'm not necessarily happy with the taxonomy or folksonomy or whatever you div-using, digg-reading, technorati-listed hipsters call it), I find my top ten tags are, not surprisingly:

politics (113)
idiocy (73)
silly (53)
weird (52)
iraq (49)
wordplay (43)
miranda (39)
music (36)
geek (33)
funny (32)

"miranda" would probably be higher, except that we've isolated our Miranda-related postings into mirandatime and mirandapod, to spare all you people who don't care that we have the cutest kid in the freakin' universe (except for your kid, of course).

I'm sure this is an lj meme already, but what are your top ten tags?

Tags: inter-nets[tm], me

Somehow I never knew about Google Sitemaps, which (among other things) lets you see statistics for Google searches that hit your website. Most interesting stats:

• The search that most often shows my site as a result (and also most often directs traffic to my site) is "big woman". A drawing I made of a model at a life-drawing session comes up as the second-ranked hit for that search, in between an amateur porn site and an article about a porn star.
• A (not very good) photo I took is the top-ranked hit for "bug sex". (There's something funny about the idea of someone entering "bug sex" and then clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky".)
• One of the top search queries for my site is "detail oriented". Amusingly, another top search query is "detailed oriented".
• On the list of pages that are similar to my site, the Atkins home page comes up 11th. I have no idea why.

Tags: inter-nets[tm], me, weird

tongodeon, why have you not registered and built www.amigoatseornot.com? I'm severely disappointed.

Tags: inter-nets[tm], silly, wordplay

"oogling".

Unfortunately, judging by the results of a search for "oogled" on Google, many people think "oogle" is actually how you spell "ogle".

Tags: inter-nets[tm], wordplay

For some reason I still have an Atomz search box on the front page of my website, despite the fact that Google made it superfluous long ago. Every so often, though, someone uses it, and I get a report.

This week, someone searched it for:

"crucif"
"crucified women"
"crucified women snuff"
"tortured girls"

Tags: crazy, inter-nets[tm], weird

It looks like LJ has an interface to Feedster that will let you search your LJ:

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/search.bml?journal=tritone

(replace tritone with your own username)

Of course, this only searches public entries.

Tags: inter-nets[tm]

For those of you who have been lj'ing longer than I have: What's the best way to search your archive of posts? I've tried googling site:tritone.livejournal.com (plus keywords), which seems to get some posts, but not all.

And isn't it kind of ridiculous that lj itself doesn't have search functionality?

Tags: inter-nets[tm]