Can't Grok, Won't Grok

Apologies for the language in the subject – I was struggling to come up with the right word beginning with “S” to express how I felt! To clear up any worries, no – I am not turning into a hip-and-trendy Rails developer (More swearing)… Cleaning the RSS House So, thanks to my biphasic sleep experiment I have finally managed to get down to “RSS Zero” – no unread or starred items. When I started this I had 2000+ unread items and over 8 months backlog of starred items “for later reading” – yeah, the “later” was very late! This has been a really interesting task on several levels: I was reading a lot of content alongside other content (as opposed to the odd post here and there). I could benchmark where I am at without the “help” of the RSS content. By this I mean, “ all those items I never read, did they make a difference? ” I allowed me to go over and over the reading process – and got me thinking about making it slicker. Content vs. Content This was an interes...

So, it was brought to my attention that my blog feed had apparently not updated since April! Now, I know that I do not publish a great deal, but I know I have posted since April! I therefore thought I should dedicate some time to figuring out what the problem was. My first port-of-call was obviously Feedburner , which basically provides a whole bunch of stats and enhanced syndication options for your blog. Sure enough, my Feedburner Feed was out of date. Excellent. Why Was Your Feed Out of Date? Good question, Feedburner wasn’t actually reporting any problems! I figured maybe it had choked somewhere along the line so I would try re-adding it to see if it caused it to refresh it’s cache or something. Boom, there it was: So, a really helpful error message telling me my feed was too big. No idea how it calculated this so I can find out for myself. But it does provide a rough idea as to where to look for an answer (no link or even better THE ACTUAL ANSWER). As always, Goog...