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I'm broke. That alone sucks. As of about 6 hours ago, I'm also out of cigarettes. That sucks worse. In fact, if there were some device that recorded everything I have ever said, ever, one might hear this interesting tidbit coming from my mouth less than a year ago: "If I were poor, I mean [...]

In my frustration with RSS I've learned a few things.
MovableType, regardless of your instructions to "encode_xml", will not detect international characters (entered with 8-bit ASCII) and convert them into HTML entities. This means that if you type an 8-bit ASCII character into your "subject" field, you will have an 8-bit ASCII character sent to the [...]

I attempted to add my RSS 1.0 feed to Syndic8 and it was rejected because my feed contains a "rogue & in titles". The problem they are discussing comes from my post about the French language because of the "&" used to make the international entity in the title (ç makes a ç).
First of all, [...]

I can't think of a UNIX command that starts with these letters, or an application that contains these letters in this order in its name. I also cannot remember typing these letters in this order in the past 24-hours or so. Yet somehow, in my commandline bar, they sit there: