802.11b Sucks

It is so painfully slow. Interference galore. So slow. So slow. It’s just travelling through two floors, how tough can it be?

Instead of writing my own RSS aggregator, I’m pleased to discover rawdog. I no longer have to worry about one illegal character stopping the whole feed from being parsed. It also has some nice features that I’ve had some ideas about but never dared implement, such as caching old old feed items and displaying them. Well, anyway, this is just the first day of trying it out. We’ll see what happens. I’ve already discovered one bug: it doesn’t properly parse RSS feeds that use characters written in the notation &bleh; or &#xxxx;. I wrote a pathetic patch and sent it to the authors. This entry should be a good test for my patch.

Lately I’ve been trying to get my aterm to have dropshadows. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be flexible enough to support different fonts and/or font sizes. With some tweaks I’ve got it working perfectly for terminus at 24px.

I’ve stopped stripping the HTML tags from the RSS feeds. This should create a more pleasant visual experience.

I’ve been using ratpoison for my window manager. JCS is right. It’s especially necessary given my limited screen real estate (1024