Peter's Blog 6.5.2004

Not so broadband

NTL have put up the cost of their 1M broadband service £3 to £37.99 which has finally motivated me to downgrade to 600k which is still £24.99. I spend most of my online time reading about python which doesn't really justify the extra cost. I type at a laptop in front of a 37 inch TV so streaming audio or video isn't very interesting to me either.

Update: 15 May 2004: my maximum download speed has dropped from about 100kb/sec to about 67kb/sec. I think I can live with this. It still feels sweet using broadband, going back to dial-up would be like living without satellite tv and having to suffer with only 5 terrestrial channels.

Comment RSS feed

I found this in the Python Desktop Server User Manual :

"Is there any way, to automatically subscribe to comments for my entries on the cloud?

Comments are a server-side feature. If you subsrcribe to the Python Community Server, use the following url:

http://pycs.net/system/comments.py?u=&full=2&format=rss 

"

This sounded like a great idea, I get notified of comments about my blog by adding an RSS feed to my aggregator. However, looking at this, I could not see how it would know to download my comments. A quick look through the Python Community Server source code revealed the trick. The following URL returns just my comments::

http://pycs.net/system/comments.py?u=0000348&full=2&format=rss

0000348 is my user number.

Nuggets

Had a play with Python Desktop Server Nuggets and added some notes to the Wiki. Nuggets allow some customisation of the Cloud view of the web log.