Pete Dudchenko

A growing trend with blogs, if you haven’t already noticed, is content feeds in RSS or Atom formats (2 of the biggest). What does this mean? Well, one example that most people probably can relate to is with the “My Yahoo” personalized page that Yahoo offers. Previously, users were locked into specific content that Yahoo offered when selecting what to display on their personalized pages.

With the development of content feeds and standard formatting, it is now possible to add any site’s content to your “My Yahoo” page as long as it is in one of these formats. In Yahoo’s case it must be in an RSS format, not Atom.

A brief intro to RSS can be found here.
A brief intro to Atom can be found here.

Anyway, I’ve started offering these blogs in both formats in case anyone uses a news reader or wants to add this to their Yahoo page. Plus its fun for me to learn about.

RSS Feed Link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DudchenkoBlog
Atom Feed Link: http://blog.dudchenko.com/atom.xml

BTW, in case you do want to add these blogs to your “My Yahoo” website. Click here.

Return to Pete’s Home Page

All | No Comments »

A funny thing happened to me on my walk to lunch today. I found myself surrounded by hundreds of butterflies in what appeared to be a mass exodus east. Have you ever been walking outside and had a bug fly right towards you and just move out of the way at the last second? Multiple that by a couple hundred and you’ll know what I mean when I say it was very odd and a bit concerning.

Anyway I looked it up and apparently this migration only happens once or twice every decade so I guess the world isn’t ending and since they are butterflies and not locusts, I think I can sleep tonight. It is a weird site though. At first glance it appears to be a bunch of leaves blowing across the street and fields.

If the butterfly effect is true, there should be a cyclone off the coast of Australia in about 30 days.

Here’s a link to an aticle on the butterfly migration.

Return to Pete’s Home Page

All | No Comments »