My facebook RSS feeds suddenly stopped working, so I had to go in and resubscribe to them (facebook uses unique URLs for each viewer) – it seems to be working again now.

I’ve added in some caching to my miniblog & status boxes up on the site here on the off chance that they were getting pissed off with it getting constantly hit. I know their T&Cs bar scraping:

… you agree not to use the Service or the Site to… use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site

But… RSS is all about the automated collection of information from a website by script. What’s the difference between my own hand rolled Perl picking up the XML and Google reader for example? Bah.

Ignoring all dire warnings about not using the firmware from www.speedtouch.co.uk with my Be* provided router, I’ve just bumped it up to 6.2.17.5.

As they don’t provide any change log all I can tell is:

– It fixes the Vista SMB / CIFS / WLAN problem I had previously
– Update: it also fixes the NTLM authentication problem with IE7, so now you can login to the Speedtouch’s web interface using IE.
– It has a new colour scheme:

Ah-ha! TAKE THAT Facebook! You should now have a rather fine "miniblog" on the left hand side complete with little pictures, snide comments and an XML RSS feed all of its own.

This is to make up for the fact that I’m not posting as many big, long posts these days but still have the occasional bit of time to post something I’ve found on the meganet.

Woo!

I was going to add a little "mini feed" for my facebook activities, but Facebook trample all over the RSS spec so it’s impossible to directly extract the links out of the feed and embed them here – you’d have to get redirected via Facebook first. Bah.

In other news, I’m dreadfully sorry for the lack of posts of late. Working for a bank has its downsides ;)