of Frank McPherson
The primary reason why I write here is because the CMS is oriented around dates, unlike every other blogging platform that has a timeline / title orientation. Best part of about the date orientation is that each month's posts are consolidated on one page / URL, which makes it easy for me build and maintain an index of the archive. Recently I found another great use for the monthly URLs, I add each month as a source to a notebook in Google NotebookLM, which provides a way to search for what I write about and also to gain insight in to what I write about. #
Dave reset feedland.org, which means that to use it one has to create a new user and then subscribe to feeds. The only reason why I am bothering with it is that this is where the latest version of FeedLand resides. It should be easy enough to copy my subscriptions from feedland.com or my local instance of FeedLand by saving the feeds OPML file locally and then importing from file, however, the import from file does not work. I am seeing an error about the XML format, it's actually hidden behind the import status message. I notice that the subscriptions list generated by FeedLand now includes a category for each item and I suspect the code doing the import doesn't know what to do with that. Giving up on this for now. I wonder if he will upgrade feedland.com. #
Last Friday I installed the QPR1 update of Android 16 on my Pixel 7a and I am really happy with the result. The update has enough changes to the UI and new features to make it feel more like an operating system upgrade, which is probably the point. In the past Google has released upgrades of Android in late August or early September so the release of Android 16 in June was unusual, but then it didn't really seem like an upgrade because nothing looked or did anything different. I am not entirely sure about the benefit of this approach.#

Last update: Monday September 8, 2025; 2:50 PM EDT.