MillionRSS is a great idea

May 22nd, 2007 · · Technology No comments - Tags: , ,

MillionRSS has a great goal of collecting RSS feeds and organizing them for the world to be able to search and find what they like by feed.

Yesterday I was a little ticked that they had been publishing full-articles from my site, but they replied and have politely removed the articles. They were even kind enough to leave a link to my site up when you search for my name. I assume this means I will still be in their search results. Awesome.

I also told Matt that I would be willing to help test any functionality and I would LOVE to have my feed indexed with a snippet or partial-article preview on their site. Like I said, they have a great idea, but readers need some reason to come to my site instead of just reading on MillionRSS.

Matt, please do let me know when/if you get preview functionality and I’ll help any way I can!

Dan’s Twitter Updates for 2007-05-21

May 21st, 2007 · · Uncategorized No comments - Tags:
  • Two weeks to go. Ready to move on, but I’ll miss this place. #
  • Getting some calls. It’s kind of nice to have something to do. #
  • So hot. Yes the A/C is broken again. This time it is the actual unit. #

Concealed carry is a bad idea and this story proves it

May 21st, 2007 · · Legislation One comment - Tags: , , ,

If you don’t recognize sarcasm, the title is definitely full of sarcasm. I just read this story where a man licensed for concealed carry in Michigan used his lawful right to carry as it was intended.

Apparently some idiot and his gang were going around robbing and attempting to steal cars from people. They finally came across a gentleman washing his car, brandished a pistol, and the victim pulled his weapon and mortally wounded the criminal.

The police properly cited self defense in this case and let the man go, with his pistol.

Please go and read the article and comments. There is some moron defending the criminal in the comments saying he was “a good guy” and “in school”. Well, then, he shouldn’t have been robbing people if he learned about Michigan’s CC law in school.

Sad someone died? Yes. Do I feel the victim did the right thing? Yep.

Microwave your daughter lately?

May 21st, 2007 · · General 4 comments - Tags: , ,

I have just read the latest “The devil made him do it” article. In this particular instance, a man put a two month old into a microwave and cooked her for about 10-20 seconds.

The mother (yes, the mother) is actually defending this piece of shit. For that, she will hopefully not be allowed to retain custody of her child. Obviously, the idiot that tried to fry her should be fried himself, but how can anyone seriously consider allowing this idiotic mother to have contact with her child?

She is defending the jackass that tried to kill her daughter. What kind of warped world do we live in?

He caused severe burns to the poor child and he faces only 5-99 years in prison. I hope he gets the full 99. I would prefer the death penalty, but it is unfortunately not an option in this case.

You have to love stolen content

May 21st, 2007 · · Technology No comments - Tags: , ,

Apparently some RSS aggregation site is publishing a complete reproduction of my blog content on their site. Unfortunately, Feedburner was set as a “attribution, noncommercial, share-alike” Creative Commons license, v 2.5. Even given this license, this site is definitely commercial and making money from ads on pages with my content.

I have since updated my license on Feedburner to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, just like it is posted on the blog home page here (look in the right column and at the bottom of the page). This will allow anyone to post my work on a noncommercial site by attributing the work to me as long as it is published in whole.

It isn’t that I mind them publishing my work so much. Mostly I am upset that they didn’t ask permission (I would have given it), they didn’t pay any attention to the copyright, and they still haven’t responded to the email I sent about removing my content.

I’m small-fry. My readership amounts to next to nothing. I am just ticked that people don’t have the kindness to request permission to publish my content. Just a simple “Hey, can we publish your feed?” and I would have said yes in a heartbeat.

I’m all about the spreading of ideas and information freely, but respect the author’s wishes.