Atomic Playboy

Public service announcement: I read my feeds in Google Reader, and I end up sharing tons of entries I find interesting and/or weird.

Here’s the shared page, or go straight to the feed for it.

There will be the occasional item in Swedish, but most of it is English.

Addendum: I should also mention that I have a habit of sharing things that I know interest people that follow my shared items. Breki wrote about Things recently, so I’ve shared a handful of Things-related entries that show up in my feed.

Want me to share stuff that interests you? Make sure I read your blog and tell me that you follow my shared items, and I’m almost certain to start sharing stuff you’ve blogged about recently.

For my feed reading needs I used Gregarius hosted on my site for nearly three years. But the downside is that I can only update feeds manually. I guess I could do a crontab that does a request for the update page, but I spent three years being too lazy to get that done.

I’ve been using Google Reader for nearly two months now to try it out, and I decided to stick with it. It’s good, it’s free, and it has great options for sharing interesting stuff with my friends that also use it (all one of them). You can find my shared items here if you’re interested. Feed also available there. The occasional shared post in Swedish, but mostly English.

Interface-wise there’s one thing that confuses me though: Google Reader treats folders (for different feeds) and tags (for individual entries) the same. But not.

I exported all my feeds from Gregarius as OPML and imported them to Google Reader with my old categories preserved. Nothing fancy — I had categories like People, Tech, Design and so on.

After importing the OPML, Google Reader picked it up just fine. The problem is when I want to tag individual entries, something I typically do with stuff I want to keep around for later.

The problem: The names of what I think of as “folders” show up as tags when I tag individual entries. And it’s making my brain melt. Google, you got tags in my folders and folders in my tags!

Another problem is that the name of the folder a feed is in is always added as a default tag for all entries from that feed. Very annoying. I have a folder named “People”, and that’s a very poor tag for the items in it.

This spam to my Gmail account had me laughing out loud.

Subject: Ihre Domain www.gmail.com ist nicht bei Google gelistet!

It’s a German spammer trying to tell me that “my” domain, gmail.com, isn’t listed in Google!

So yeah, you stupid spammer dudes at Finke Marketing. Thanks for the chuckles.

It looks like somehow atomicplayboy.net recently got PageRank 5 by Google, whereas www.atomicplayboy.net got dropped from 4 to 3.

Good riddance, I say. I’m not a big fan of the “www” prefix in URLs.

I’ve gotten quite tired of Thunderbird lately. It’s a pretty fine application, but after using the search features of Gmail I’ve become a bit spoiled.

So as an experiment I’m now forwarding all mail from my address at this domain to my Gmail account, and setting the reply-to there to my regular address.

I’m also using this application to load Gmail with a bunch of mbox folders with some of my old mail that I want to keep in Gmail for storage and easy searching — order receipts and such.

Let’s see how this works out.