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Back when I actually wrote web page code, I recall learning RSS syntax so the site’s content was available to early RSS adapters. It’s years later now, and I still don’t get the RSS fix. I know some of you live and die by the technology, but to me, it’s little more than a novelty.

I just realized that Safari has a pretty snazzy RSS browser built in, and reading this site on it is like looking at someone’s lesser web page only with my content. I don’t know why you’d want that kind of functionality in a browser though, because you could just use it to browse web pages which is the whole damned point of having it in the first place.

I can even add other people’s RSS feeds to the site’s sidebar quickly and easily using WordPress widgetism. Another novelty that I can only see useful if I’m in some sort of network made up of sister pages. Nonetheless a novelty so ubiquitous that authors of blogging software swear by its presence. Alas, single and sisterless, I have no purpose for such twiddling.

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