• Today my keyboard at work broke. There was about an hour left in the day so I called the helpdesk, but nobody came to replace it; fortunately a neighbor was already gone for the day so I stole hers. I had to put it back though.
• I wanted to find a feed reader other than Bloglines. The closest I found was Rojo; I also tried Google Reader. I’m going to keep all three running for a while but I think I’ll end up sticking with Bloglines. I’ll just have to cross my fingers that they come up with a more attractive interface without changing functionality.
• Tomorrow is going to suck. I have a technical meeting from 9-10, a laid-back meeting from 10-11 that might be canceled (and if not, will be done by 10:30), and a meeting from 11-12:30 that is in a public area (always a pain in the ass because I can never hear what’s being said). I also have a meeting from 1-2 that I have basically no preparation for, and my only previous experience with this meeting is that it’s fast-paced and everybody talks all at once. Plus I have to go kayaking in the evening so a kind soul will be able to bring my kayak home for me. (I was going to take a self-esteem class, but that got canceled, so kayaking became a possibility.) So, yeah, tomorrow is going to suck. I better finish packing tonight. edit: Turns out I’m not going kayaking after all, so I will get some shopping and stuff done tomorrow.
• Friday will probably involve waiting in line for my CAC card…all day. I will be picking up some shoes from the cobbler after work, and getting a manicure. I don’t get them often, but you better believe if I am not working for a week I will be getting my nails done with a fancy color!
• I am enjoying using Twitter - I’m actually keeping it up to date. I hope to figure out how to display it on my webpage, or something.

Ooookay…I think I have successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.0. It seems like everything has gone okay. The only thing I am not sure about is the Feedburner stuff; the plugin is not compatible with WP2 and the workaround was a little confusing for me. Hopefully nobody is reading with wp-rss.php or wp-rss2.php directly, because I’m not sure what to do with those, but the main URLs - /feed and the legacy full.xml - seem to redirect okay. I am really going to miss Live+Press until it is updated to work with WP2; I will go back to manually copying my entries into LiveJournal. But unteins has always been pretty responsive in Live+Press development so I’m sure something will happen with that eventually. There are a few other plugins I have yet to test - Text Replace and The Execution of All Things being important ones I’d like to get back. But for now it seems to have gone okay, I think/hope.

Thanks to the very astute Levi, I have found and fixed a problem with my feeds. For some reason WordPress includes an XML declaration that FeedBurner can’t handle, so I had originally edited that. When I reinstalled WordPress recently, it overwrote the feed files I had edited with the incompatible ones. Levi called my attention to my broken feed, and it took me a few minutes to figure out what the problem was. As soon as I did, though, I edited all of my feeds by hand and got rid of that bad declaration. Poof! Problem solved, and my feed is up and running and happy again. If you haven’t already subscribed, there are some handy links to do so right on the burned feed itself.

Added: I figured I’d give LivePress another shot, and it synced perfectly. Yay!

While editing in the Blog Publishers category at ODP, I stumbled upon RSS Calendar. It’s a nifty online calendar (similar to iCal or vCal) that takes your events and publishes several RSS feeds from them. There are daily, weekly, and monthly feeds as well as a rolling 30-day feed, a three-month feed, a feed for the year, and an “all events” feed. You can even place events into categories and then get a feed for an individual category; you can also get a snippet of Javascript that allows you to place any given feed on your website. You can allow RSVPs and comments on any event. The event scheduling system is a little bit clunky - in order to schedule something that was planned for the whole weekend, I had to set the event to run from 7pm to 11:55pm Friday, all day Saturday, and then 9:00am to 6:00pm Sunday. A better method would be to allow an end date as well as an end time, to allow for multi-day events. I also don’t see any way to delete single instances of a recurring event, but it doesn’t seem to mind conflicting events.

The two feeds I thought were most important/interesting were my weekly feed and my rolling thirty-day feed. If you’re interested in subscribing to the daily, monthly, or any other feed, let me know - there’s an “invite” feature that allows you to send a feed URL directly to someone. Please let me know if you subscribe to my calendar feeds!