Computers & Technology: November 2003 Archives

As a self-described Deaniac, I enjoy reading the Dean For America blog. However, while I can read it on my computer easily, there's been no AvantGo channel, and surfing the web on my Palm phone is somewhat slow and cumbersome. (I know; the world should have my problems.)

However, one can set up a custom channel on AvantGo quite easily, and there are RSS/XML feeds available from the blog. Combine these two things with readily available code to parse the feeds and translate them into HTML, and voila, instant mobile bliss.

So I got this script somewhere. Regrettably, I can't remember where so I can't credit the person or persons who created it, but I'm very grateful to whoever it was.

Anyway, here's the PHP code, modified for the blog. Enjoy!

"Just as Congress recently voted to pre-empt key parts of the state's financial privacy law -- which would have given consumers the ability to restrict information sharing among affiliated companies -- special interests once again prevailed over individual rights in Washington. Yes, once again, Congress has come up with an industry-crafted alternative to a strong state law." says the Chronicle.

In my spam folder today, meanwhile, sits:

• "^_Boost your :P:E-N"I*S' LEN'GTH" from Tessa Felton


• "STOP SUFFERING IN SILENCE" from Christoper Yang


• "WANT; A BIG R'OD iesdqvfpaahr" from Rodolfo T. Betts


• "Great new development *" from Forrest D. Ashley


• "expand" your ^horiz-ons. wvongudi" from Gilda Marks (Tutti-Frutti, wvongudi, Tutti-Frutti, wvongudi, A-wop-bamma-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!)


• "How much is your car worth on trade-in?" from Trade In Values


• "Hello, My antenna on cell sucks :-(" from Ashley Wheeler (maybe Ashley should talk to Rodolfo T. Betts?)


• "Info Information You need" from Marta Temple


• "splat Rate, SEE THIS MEDS OFFER abide armchair" from Jannine Lane (Divinely obscure to the point of surrealism...)


• "Earn huge money quickly from home..." from Allan Crouch (Would the huge money be earned via my BIG R'OD?)


• "cleaner colon wfbve" from Millie Story (EWWWWWWW!!!! That's NASTY!!!!)

I will be emailing president@whitehouse.gov today. I am also tempted to forward all of this spam to him, but I'd probably get arrested.

(Additional thought: about a new slogan for bumper stickers and such. Something like "I DON'T WANT A BIGGER PENIS, AND I VOTE!!!")