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RSS feeds have been around for awhile now however I never really realized how useful and powerful they are… What are RSS feeds you ask?

RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting. Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website’s frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.– Wikipedia

I recently stumbled upon a firefox extension called Sage which manages RSS feeds for you… I figured I would go ahead and give this RSS reader a try and see how I like it… And wow it has changed how I surf the web… It pretty much has reduced the amount of websites I have to check from like 30 to 0… I just check Sage and it tells me what sites have new articles posted and I can click on them to view them in the browser… A great time saver… If you have many blogs/news sites/any site that has an RSS feed to check and you like to check them frequently, RSS feeds and a RSS feed reader like Sage is definitely the way to go no doubt about it…

Download sage and subscribe to my RSS feed!

–Jason

Well we made it to blacksburg last night around 7:30 and the drive went smooth…

Now we are packed yet again and ready to hit the road for Memphis for 311 Day 2006.

Just wanted to do a quick post to let you know that we are getting ready to hit the road and such.

Keep an eye on my MMS website for constant updates throughout the trip as that will be the easiest way to update the website…

Hopefully ill be able to post once i get to memphis.

In the meantime ill be on the road! Later,

–Jason

Well i am all packed and ready to go, just need to load the car and grab a few quick things…

Need to run a few errands real quick then over to travs around 3 and then off to Blacksburg for the first leg of our 311 trip…

Just wanted to post before i left… I have a few things that i need to post about (car shopping and RSS feed stuff) but that will have to wait until tonight…

I am going to miss this high speed internet… back to the T1 line tonight

–Jason

Listen to it here.

Are you ready for the concert event of the year?

This year 311 day is moving and coming up from New Orleans to Memphis. 311 live March 11th at Mid South Coliseum.

Don’t just hear about it be a part of it, 311 live.

All roads lead to Memphis for 311 day 2006, the ultimate 311 concert experience.

Extended set list, special surprises, 3333111111111…

311 Live, 311 day March 11th at Mid South Coliseum.

Get ready Memphis, its 311 Day 2006.

Well spring break is here… its actually been here awhile, i just have been too lazy to post anything lately…

Not much is going on… Havent done anything really eventful… I went up to BGW for lunch and pre-employment drug testing… Ate lunch at the festhaua EBA as it was the first day that is was open… chicken tenders and fries, how yummy… Got to see all the new micros registers that are going to be installed all around the park including england, italy, and festa i believe… yay more micros to support… lots of fun with those… atleast we dont have to do much with them, just call micros if there is a problem and they will come out and fix/replace them… A service contract like that is probably pretty expensive, but well worth it…

Other than BGW, i have just been hangin out with katie… We went ice skating the other night which was quite fun… havent ice skated in a while… watched a few movies, played some pool, and just hung out…

Got my hair cut today, as it was well needed…

Well i leave newport news tomorrow night for blacksburg on the first leg of our 311 memphis trip… tonight or tomorrow i am going to get together all the directions and lodging stuff figured out so we know where we are going and where we are going to stay…

its dinner time and then car shopping time… Ill do a quick post before i leave for blacksburg tomorrow… later…

–Jason

Spring break is only 1 8am class and quiz away… Just finished up all the homework and am getting ready to head to bed…

Going to come back home and finish packing and then hit the road… leave around 11…

Home until thursday evening then heading back up to blacksburg to spend the night here before leaving for Memphis, TN on 3.10…

Spend the night at one of my friends places that will put us up for the night, or find a hotel room…

Hang out in memphis on the morning of 3.11 before going to the concert @ 7pm…

Most likely we will spend a 2nd night in memphis before getting up on Sunday and driving back to Blacksburg for school which starts on monday…

It will be an awesome road trip… It will be well documented w/ camera/video… Lots of phone cam pics so keep an eye out on the mms page here… I will probably post messages when i can if i bring my laptop and/or have access to a computer…

Well i am out for the night, gotta get some sleep for the drive home, later…

–Jason

Got a 100…

Well i think i am going to go make some tea and procrastinate a lil more on this homework…

–Jason

In the near future, i will be updating my MMS (multimedia message server) code to use the mySQL database vs using files..

I am going to see which is faster…

I have already written up a Proof of Concept code to do this, just need to make everything nice and neat and all… Shouldnt take too long to make the changes to save the files to the database… Hopefully i will be able to implement the changes tomorrow if i have time… Got a lot of homework to do and quizes to study for…

So keep an eye out for a lot of upcoming changes to the MMS server code…

Well now that i got the proof of concept done i am going to hit the shower and get some shut eye… later…

Oh and i also started working on the new theme tonight… But its going to require a lot of work… so i will probably do that over spring break… so keep an eye for a new basic theme in the up and coming future…

–Jason

Well spring break is right around the corner… The only thing between me and spring break is 2 homeworks, 2 quizes, and 3 classes… Then its spring break…

Got a 92 on my Discrete math test… Ill find out what i got on my other test tomorrow morning…

Played hockey last night… Had a pretty good turn out, 16 players including goalies which allowed for shifts… With being able to take shifts instead of playing for 1.5 hours i felt a lot better… Still need to work on the endurance though… Scored a couple of goals again… need to work on the passing and one timeres… need to get my timing back and keep the head up looking for passes…

I am currently working on the theme of the blog… so if it looks a little messed up or not all of the options are there that is why… just check back in a couple of hours and it should be restored to the default or the new theme with everything…

Well i am going to go watch Lost and work on some CSS… later…

–Jason

Google has released their Google Pages website… its a simple web page making utility…

You can view mine here.

Just go to pages.google.com and make your own!