Someone's script was hitting my rss.xml file about every forty seconds since yesterday. So I dropped a note about a possible bug on their side and figured I'd block them if need be. Got home from work and it's still hitting me. Hmm, just out of curiosity I took a peek at my RSS file and it had a markup bug, most likely I'm not escaping the content properly. It looks like their bug was triggered by my bug. Cool!

"Great, have your bugs touch base with my bugs and we'll put this deal to rest..."

After much careful thought (at least three seconds worth) I decided to scale back the RSS feed to just titles. Sorry folks. I've flip-flopped a couple of times regarding these feeds. I can see how folks might like the way a news reader allows them to organize weblogs and do the updating for them, but on the other hand I really don't like the fact that the readers also render the content out of context of my page. No particular reason, just stubborness on my part. I've also been planning on making it so my images only get served up from my pages, which would have also broken RSS. It was time.

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