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date: "2003-06-27T17:25:14Z"
title: Firebird Makes Me Sad
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I had an awesome new post all ready to go, then a fuse blew in the house and killed the power on my workstation and file server.  Oh well.  I know I had some of the following URLs linked from it:
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<li><a href='http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/15/ultraliberal_rss_locator.html'>The Ultra-liberal RSS Locator</a></li>
<li><a href='http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml02172003.asp'>MSDN's "Building a Desktop News Aggregator"</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.syndic8.com/'>Syndic8</a>: a great RSS feed repository</li>
<li><a href='http://www.syndic8.com/xml.php'>Syndic8's feed list query</a></li>
<li><a href='http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aggregators/'>The Aggregators mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.opml.org/'>OPML</a>: RSS feed list interchange</li>
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The <a href='http://msdn.microsoft.com/'>MSDN</a> and <a href='http://www.diveintomark.org/'>Dive Into Mark</a> links have a lot of interesting ideas which I'd like to see implemented in <a href='/software/raggle/'>Raggle</a>.  I'd like to know which features <a href='http://blogspace.com/rss/readers'>those other inferior RSS aggregators</a> appeal to users (ones that can be reasonably implemented in Raggle, that is).  If you have an idea, feel free to email it to <a href='mailto:i_hate_raggle@pablotron.org'>i_hate_raggle@pablotron.org</a>.
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Oh yeah, <a href='http://www.twistedpath.org'>Lyle (term)</a> pointed me at <a href='http://www.americanapologyshirt.com/'>these shirts</a>.  Mine should be here in a few days :-).
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