RSS Readers

I’m not sure why, but lately Akregator has been behaving poorly. Sometimes when it updates a feed, it adds articles from other feeds into the feed and marks them as unread. This gets extremely annoying and every attempt I’ve made to fix the problem has not proved to be fruitful.

Akregator Showing the Articles in the Wrong Field

To solve this, I didn’t create a bug report with KDE nor tried to fix it myself. I’ll have to admit that sometimes I’m not a very good member in the Open Source community. I simply don’t have time to fix the problem. I looked through Gentoo’s package manager Portage for some RSS readers. The selection wasn’t very great, but I installed a few of them. The first one, Blam Newsreader boasts to be simple. Unfortunately it was TOO simple for my use. I went down the list, and found Liferea (I don’t like the name much, it sounds a bit too much like urea). I copied all my feeds from Akreagtor to Liferea and so far so good. It has all the options and features I want from an RSS reader. I’ve been using it for not very long, so I’ll update this later with more comments. Here’s the interface…

Liferea Interface Reading a Web Comic

Busy Busy Busy!!

I just stopped by my blog to check up on things. It appears I was a few versions behind so I thought I should probably update it while I was here and avoiding doing my school work. After updating, I felt kinda guilty for not updating the blog more often.
It’s fall, so why not? School is back and super super busy, and I haven’t had ANY time to write a single line of code since I left work in the summer. How bad is that? That’s quite unlike me. This term’s course load is tremendous. I’m taking…

• Embedded Systems
• Electrical Engineering
• Algorithms
• Ethics in the workplace
• Numerical Methods

All of those classes besides the ethics class are extremely demanding and have me working many hours a day just to keep up. All this week has been 12+ hour days, except today when the lack of sleep started to catch up to me.
Just thought I’d give you guys a quick update on what’s going on, and hope to hear from you soon!