December 29th 2004 11:02 am PT
Please don’t auto-detect me
If you want to subscribe to my RSS Feed, please use the link in the sidebar. DON’T let your browser or feedreader auto-detect any of the RSS or Atom feeds on my site. I know that Firefox pops up a little icon in the lower right hand corner that you can click on to subscribe to feeds, and Feed Demon my reader of choice does something similar. The reason I want you to use the link is that I run all my feeds through FeedBurner.com so that it will pick up the enclosure tag for my blogcasts, and it makes the one feed readable by 99.9% of the readers out there. What the auto detect feature look for certain files on my web server that create the feeds. If you pick use auto-detect, I can’t guarantee that you’ll get the feed all the time.
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