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Gary Burd’s weblog explains how to construct your own RSS feed of an amazon.com query. It’s really not hard, either — it’s all in the URL. Sorry, but I can’t remember where I found this link (I like to credit my sources when I can). It was probably one of the Lockergnome newsletters … errr … RSS feeds. Now, that I’m using bloglines.com and RSS, I rarely read newsletters anymore — no reason to!

And, from this entry in Dan Gillmor’s eJournal there’s this link to a page on Amazon.com discussing their syndicated content. It also gives a couple of good links to more information on RSS and readers.

Published by Microsoft. See this list of their feeds.

You can download it here (a 1,247KB download) and read more about it in MSKB article 817778. Briefly, it includes IPV6 support, including a firewall, and support for the peer-to-peer networking components (peer-to-peer networking name resolution, peer-to-peer networking graphing, peer-to-peer networking grouping and the peer-to-peer networking identity manager). If you’re interested, read the MSKB article.

I’ve set my test mailami.com account up to block everyone so if you want to see what kind of bounce message you get, send it email. I tried it and the bounce message is just as they say and the go one step further: they request that the sender remove this address from their lists. Will that help? — probably not but it can’t hurt, either.

Betanews.com reports on it here. No Bayesian filters, no blacklist/whilelist server, no training the service, (right now) it’s just a simple list of block and allow rules that YOU add. Still, if someone on your block list tries to send email, it never leaves their server — they’re informed that they’ve been blocked (or something like that … I’ll have to test it and see). If that’s the case, I kinda like that approach. Rule maintenance could be a pain, though. It’s a new service and there are quite a few rough edges (I’ve sent them 4 comments in the first 5 minutes of my having an account). Try sending me email : ts-test — at — mailami –dot– com.

Service is free for individuals even though it appears that you have to pay something after a 7 day evaluation period.

I kid you not, Xenarc makes a computer that fits in your dashboard. 266MHz Pentium with 128M RAM, 15G disk, USB, PCMCIA slots and more. Although, if you look at the bottom of the page it says

“This product has been temporarily discontinued. We are currently working on a version with faster processor speed, possibly Pentium 3 based platform so that it would support Windows XP. Please check back with us in a couple of months for more information. Mean while, please take a look at our new Pentium 3 based MP-SC1 12V DC Carputer.”

GetNetWise.org discusses how to keep you, your computer, your kids, your identity safe, omitting the jargon and the hype/crap and is backed/supported by the likes of AOL, Microsoft, AT&T, Comcast, Earthlink and a host of others. To some that may sound like damning evidence but the stuff I’ve seen there is generally worthwhile.

MSDN TV has a good media file of a discussion among team leaders of agile (lighweight) development methods. It’s called “Agile Development in the Enterprise“. I’ve seen this discussed in the ASP.NET Weblogs and it’s pretty intriguing. I’ll provide more details as I get them.

Don’t know if this is an exclusive or not but you see that little map of the world up there next to the blogmatrix and blogrss logos? Well, blogmatrix hasn’t announced it yet but they’re getting ready to do so and I was just given a link to the page. Pretty cool! All the sites that provide location information to them is/will be mapped.

The BlogMatrix.com folks have figured out how to give the users of the free Blogger service (not Blogger Pro) a full-text RSS feed. And it’s free, too! So, that little up there will now give you a full-text RSS feed of this weblog complete with the correct title for each entry.

I’ve got Moveable Type V2.64 installed but the Blogger service is very easy and convenient to use. Coupled with the speed of the free hosting service provided by BlogSpot, it’s a nearly unbeatable combination in my opinion. No, Blogger isn’t as fancy as the MT system, nor is it as flexible and I’ve gotta find services that will provide an RSS feed and a comment capability but these are (hopefully) one-time investments in time on my part.