tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94686942024-03-07T12:12:55.674-08:001ec51ec5. Expanding my online presence, one drivel-disseminating service at a time. A mirror for <a href="http://notes.1ec5.org/index.html" rel="alternate">Minh’s Notes</a> with status information for <a href="http://www.1ec5.org/planet/xavier/" rel="bookmark">Planet Xavier</a>.Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1124345841765003352005-08-17T23:12:00.000-07:002006-11-11T00:19:23.415-08:00Another furball for Planet XavierMySpace recently added <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</acronym> feeds for blogs, so tonight I went ahead and told Planet to use a slew of those feeds for <acronym title="Planet Xavier">pX</acronym>. (More on the MySpace feeds <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/archives/2005/08/18/myspace_rss.html" rel="bookmark" title="Two problems (Thursday, August 18th, 2005)">later today</a> at <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/" rel="bookmark"><cite>Minh’s Notes</cite></a>.) As it turns out, those feeds are flawed in the same way Xanga’s feeds are: they don’t provide proper dates. For some reason, MySpace is reporting that every blog post ever authored there was published on Monday, January 1<sup>st</sup>, 1900, at exactly 3:00 in the morning <acronym title="Eastern Standard Time">EST</acronym>.<br /><br /><strong>Can you say… <acronym title="Year 2000">Y2K</acronym>?</strong><br /><br />Thanks to this issue, all the old <em>MySpace</em> blog entries are showing up at the top. So I’m imploring everyone to get to work on their blogs: write! Post some entries – your schedule, your cat, anything – to push all those entries down the page. (And I worked so hard on <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/archives/2005/08/18/marian_days.html" rel="bookmark" title="Minh’s Notes: Đại Hội Thánh Mẫu 2005">the entry that ended up at the bottom</a>, too.) Looks like I’ll have to toil to fix these feeds like I did with the Xanga feeds…Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1123913262082451852005-08-12T23:06:00.000-07:002006-11-11T00:19:22.962-08:00Problems at Planet Xavier once againYes, <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/planet/xavier/">Planet Xavier</a> coughed up a furball of old entries again. Please continue blogging, so that these old posts get pushed down the page. Thanks.Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1119327655677596792005-06-20T21:17:00.000-07:002006-11-11T00:19:22.458-08:00Permanent links make a returnPermanent links to Xanga and MySpace entries at <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/planet/xavier/" rel="bookmark" title="Planet Xavier, voice of the St. Xavier blogging community">Planet Xavier</a> were horked last night, due to a glitch with the XML parser. I’m currently working around the problem with a little hack of a solution, but I hope to get to the root cause of the problem sometime Tuesday.<br /><br />Lucky for all of you, it’s once again possible to visit the Xangas again. If only I could figure out what’s going on with the timestamps – the dates and times are going bizerk!Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1119242054409095142005-06-19T21:33:00.000-07:002006-11-11T00:19:22.135-08:00Never mind…Never mind about <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/archives/2005/06/19/px_xanga_date.html" rel="bookmark" title="Chronology">that</a>… all the Xangas are back up again, thanks to a little typo I made.Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1119067701703827842005-06-17T21:07:00.000-07:002006-11-11T00:19:21.465-08:00Testing…Yes, all the old posts are up, and as usual, it’s limited to Xangas. Ironically, it’s because I’m testing some code that’ll let Planet understand the (incorrectly-formatted) dates that Xanga feeds include. It failed miserably, of course, but I think I know what’s going on, and I just thought of a novel way of preventing this Xanga spam from ever occurring again: <em>backing up the cache!</em><br /><br /><code></sarcasm></code>Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1111977123744153692005-03-27T18:29:00.000-08:002006-11-11T00:19:21.039-08:00Planet, please go awayThis is a test (yes, once again) of the Planet Xavier exclusion mechanism. Use the following code:<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><code>PLANET_GO_<!-- this is sample text -->AWAY</code><br /></blockquote><br /><br />… to tell Planet to ignore your post. Feel free to put it in <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> comments, like so:<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><code><!-- PLANET_GO_<!-- this is sample text -->AWAY --></code><br /></blockquote><br /><br />Good for extremely personal stuff. But if the feature is working properly, you hopefully won’t be reading this through Planet Xavier anytime soon.<br /><br /><!-- PLANET_GO_AWAY --><br /><br /><strong>Update:</strong> Yes! It <em>finally</em> works! This is to be used sparingly; if you regularly post highly personal stuff, it’s probably safer to go with your blogging service’s “Private” feature, since that’s sure to work even if Planet goes bizzerk for some reason.Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1107716648316571402005-02-06T11:01:00.000-08:002006-11-11T00:19:20.812-08:00Here we go again…Yes, I’m once again testing the <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/planet/xavier/" rel="bookmark" title="Planet Xavier"><acronym title="Planet Xavier">pX</acronym></a> exclusion mechanism. Doesn’t that name just sound <em>so</em> official?<!-- exclude_px -->Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1102222837127939722004-12-04T22:00:00.000-08:002006-11-11T00:19:20.502-08:00Minhs Notes Update: This is a testWell, <em>that</em> didn’t go to well:
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<br />(The title’s part of the mess, too…)Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468694.post-1102222285113603892004-12-04T20:31:00.000-08:002006-11-11T00:19:20.257-08:00RipoffThis is a mirror of <a href="http://mxn.f2o.org/index.html" rel="alternate" title="Minh’s Notes"><cite>Minh’s Notes</cite></a>. It will hopefully be generated automatically using a system I hand-crafted. So don’t expect <em>too</em> much original material here. To quench your serious blog-reading needs, visit <cite>Minh’s Notes</cite> today – and everyday, for that matter.Minh Nguyễnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324999870791116456noreply@blogger.com1