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iTunes and WordPress Funkiness

I think that I have found a bug in iTunes!

My buddy Victor Cajiao over at the Typical PC User Podcast had some funkiness going on with his feed. On Saturday he posted a show (See “Before” image) once iTunes downloaded it, iTunes would change the subscribed to feed from his feedburner address to the last enclosure URL (See “After” image). This was a problem because you would not get anymore updates from him because the URL for the MP3 was not a valid XML file! (See “After-After” image) …and therefore a bunch of iTunes users were not subscribed any longer.

I tried several fixes including upgrading his WordPress to 2.0 and a lot of other hair-brained fixes..the problem was there was an open link tag in a previous posts show notes (Kudos to Blaine McDonnell for catching that). Of course this is not right…but I think that this kicked off a bug in iTunes that changed the subscription URL.

There is a directive that you can put in your feed to point everyone to a new feed…but it shouldn’t do that unless it explicitly sees it. So podcasters be aware! Close all the tags in your Show Notes! (Which is good advice for anything really)

*Update* Apparently the podcast guys at Apple got back to us and said that they had seen this before as a rare problem…and are looking to fix that…Awesome!

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Knoppix Rocks, period!

Earlier this morning, I turned on my Laptop to get some work done. I first clicked on Firefox. I flipped over to another machine to check our internal mail. When I flipped back (kvm) I noticed that Firefox wasn’t starting. I clicked on Thunderbird. No go. Then finally I rebooted….and that is where the trouble started. I saw that Ubuntu couldn’t shut down some services, and upon reboot, I got the famous “run FSCK manually” message.

Wouldn’t you know it…this morning I actually held my disks in hand, and thought…nah…I won’t need them. Well I did. I needed my Ultimate Windows Boot Disk, or Knoppix…I had neither. So I downloaded Knoppix 4.0.

FSCK tried but found a TON of errors. I told it to repair, but a reboot afterwards was a no go. I ended up booting up on Knoppix and could find all my data in the Lost+Found under an obscure numbered folder (due to repair) and was able to get all my data copied off.

So, my hats off to Knoppix for giving me access to my Drive. Thanks Knoppix!

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Internet Explorer Ship Sinks and Guess Who Is Mad…

Who didn’t see this coming? Are Internet Explorer’s Days numbered? If thing continue like they have been I believe so. Here is a link to an article that talks about some people being ticked over the whole IE debacle…the Employees of MS. If they are pissed…you know somethings not right.

Microsoft Employees Rage As Internet Explorer Ship Sinks
No way to build a market: No more Mac users. No more Dell users in the UK. HP’s shipping Netscape. Internet Explorer 7 is the ultimate “me too” knock off. And nobody’s madder than Microsoft employees and fans.

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Google Reader API

This is a good read explaining the api of Google Reader. I didn’t know that these were available so this is particularly interesting to me. Check it out.

Update: It isn’t quite ready for primetime yet and some of the URLs that you would use to access the data may change…so keep on the lookout for an announcment. More can be found at the link below.

Google Reader API

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Hard Drive Coffee Table!

Holy cow! This is just the style that I want to redo my house in! Now if I could just get my wife to buy that.

The Hard Drive Coffee Table is built from an original 26″ diameter hard drive platter from an early storage device, the Control Data Corporation 6603 Disk File Controller manufactured by Bryant-Excello circa 1967…
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Christmas Carols Everywhere!

A bunch of podcasters over at the Podcast Pickle community have also put together an interpretation of A Christmas Carol.

Apparently there are 3 that I know of.
A Geek Christmas Carol
Ours with a geek theme of Scrooge outsourcing his company, and seeing himself as a geek in a former life…

A Podcast Christmas Carol
This is where Scrooge is a big Media Mongol and deals with Radio v. Podcasting.

A Christmas Carol
As told be Charles Dickens…no interpretation here, but read as is.

So there is plenty to keep your iPod busy this holiday season!