Crumpled Notebook

More on the Janusex Scandal.

I find it hilarious that people in the eHarmony offices in Pasadena keep checking my previous eHarmony blog post out. Sorry to point out the irony in it eHarmony, but for the so-called “serious” dating site, you have to admit, it’s pretty funny. Now my question is this…was someone in your offices having a little fun, or was it pure accidental? And if so, why didn’t anyone notice? Pretty good not-so-subliminal advertising there though.

21 visits just today so far. Shouldn’t you guys be working on sending me good matches rather than reading my blog?

Note: I say all this in jest. I do like eHarmony and perfer it over any other online dating site.

I know, he’s not exactly everyone’s favorite coach, but I’ve always liked him, and probably always will. So, I’m really happy Bobby Knight got his 900th win tonight. Only 2 other college basketball coaches have acheived that (both women’s basketball coaches by the way….that lady from Texas and of course Pat Summitt at Tenneessee. Anyway, very cool for him. And congrats to Tech for knocking off the #10 ranked Aggies.

Read the full game summary here.

So, I found this totally amusing, because, you know me, I find such things amusing. Here is the new January promo code for eHarmony. What do you think they’re trying to tell me?

I think that’ll be my new word: Janusex

“Too bad I’m not married so I can have me some Janusex. I’ll have to re-sign up for eHarmony and maybe by next year, I’ll be able to have Janusex.”

Read an update here.

So, Jeff and I were talking about how great RSS feed readers were the other day and how when you try to explain it to someone who hasn’t ever used one, they get confused and tune you out. Anyway, so here is my attempt for all my non-technical readers (which I think is mostly everyone).

It’s like your email. People send you emails. With a feed reader, you find blogs and websites you like that update content regularly, and you add their feed (basically just a link that only gives you the new content in a plain text type format). Then, you check it daily, like your email and any time there is something new there, it shows up and you can read it from inside that one page. So, on a typical day, I read about 50-100 articles from about 20 different blogs or websites. I probably get more articles that show up, but I don’t read everything, I can just skip over the stuff I don’t want to read. I can save things I want to go back and read. So, it’s basically a huge time saver. Rather than visiting 20 websites a day, looking for what is new, what I’ve read and what I haven’t, I get it all in a matter of minutes.

I was looking for a way to put a RSS feed of my Youtube subscriptions in Google Reader. There didn’t seem to be a simple way to do it from the website, not as simple as I’d imagine they would want to make it, however, there is a way to do it…it just seems to be hidden on the Youtube site unless you search for it.

So if anyone who reads this cares, or uses Google Reader or some other feed reader, here it is:

Tags:
For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the tag “monkey,” you would enter: feed://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/monkey.rss

Users:
feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert username here]/videos.rss

example:

feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/melfelk/videos.rss Pretty easy, huh? I wish they’d just make it so you could add it from the user’s channel page.