The Same River.

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So Facebook doesn’t want to play nice and just give you RSS feeds for a user’s status updates. Used to be you could do that, but not so much any longer. It appears you may be able to generate a status feed using the Graph API, but that’s seriously overkill for my needs. Besides, who wants to write a graph parser when RSS parsers are a dime a dozen?

At least they haven’t nuked the user notifications RSS feed. Not yet, at least. Once they do, there’s always this.

Reading this thread, I came across an exchange that amused me for some reason. After back-and-forthing for a bit we get to the endgame:

valkyryn: All I can really say is “I object to just about everything about the way that you see the world” and leave it at that.

VikingSword Agreed.

Not sure if this should be considered gentlemanly or passive-aggressive.

This is what the lady and I have come up with so far:

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For a limited time you can play Pac-Man instead of searching Google in celebration of the game’s 30th anniversary. check it out.

WTF, Facebook? Can you not properly handle an RSS feed?

We shall see. We shall see…

Coordinating resources in real time for a likely case of human trafficking. At this time results are not exactly awesome so if you don’t want to read a possibly crappy ending, don’t bother following the link.

Ever notice NPR seems to have cornered the market on interesting names for presenters and reporters? Well, someone else has. The short of it being your NPR name is your first name with your middle initial stuck in it somewhere and the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.

‘Nick’ doesn’t lend itself well to adding a ‘B’ so I’ve used my given name to get Nichoblas. Having gotten up close and personal with the German countryside I’ve got my pick of towns to choose from. Going for sonorous over accuracy (who really knows which is smaller of all the tiny villages surrounding Baumholder) I chose Wickenrodt.

Reporting from the Palatinate, I’m Nichoblas Wickenrodt for Public Radio International.

Because sometimes all you really want is to watch the squirrels dance to Michael Jackson…

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