The Real Ryan J. Parker

I don’t know how I made it this long without doing so, but I finally made a purchase over at woot.

During the “woot off” on Thursday (I’m still not sure what that means exactly or how long it lasts) I purchased a 4 GB SD memory card for $20+$5 shipping. I plan on purchasing a new digital camera that uses SD memory, so getting this kind of price now made me realize I couldn’t pass it up.

I have no idea when to expect the arrival of my purchase, but seeing as how I won’t be needing it until June I figure I’ll have it in time.

Do you woot?

Tags: woot, 4gb, sd, memory

I’ve found a weird inconsistency with my Google homepage, and it appears to be created by RSS feeds that have FeedBurner’s URL tracking features turned on.

The problem I’m having is that of web usability.

From time to time, the links that appear as visited on my Google homepage (because I’ve visited them, of course) turn back to the non-visited color sometime later. This sucks, because I know I’ve visited the pages before, but I have to make sure I have read it first.

This creates major problems for someone like me with OCD (no, I don’t perform rituals).

The only common theme with all of the feeds that show this type behavior is that they all have FeedBurner’s URL tracking turned on.

I don’t use Google Reader or any other RSS reader, so I’m wondering if it’s just Google homepage, or if all RSS readers have this problem.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior on their Google homepage or other RSS reader? If you use FeedBurner URL tracking would you please turn it off?

Tags: feedburner, url, tracking, google, homepage, link, color, ocd

As you might be able to tell from the light amount of posting I’ve done on my blog in recent weeks, I’ve been keeping myself fairly busy.

One thing I try to do, however, is keep up with the latest in the blogosphere using my Google homepage. During this time of increased busyness, however, every time I’d visit some of the tabs on my Google homepage I’d feel somewhat overwhelmed.

This caused me to do something I don’t do much of: unsubscribe from RSS feeds.

In the grand scheme of things this was probably a good thing, as the feeds I unsubscribed from provide no value to me (or likely anyone else, for that matter).

Coming to this realization made me feel dirty inside. Why did I subscribe in the first place? Is unsubscribing now going to keep me from missing out on something good in the future? Do these people know I’ve unsubscribed and will try to hunt down my unborn children because their FeedBurner FeedCount decreased?

I have no answers to these questions, but I’d like to hear what everyone else thinks. Do you unsubscribe from RSS feeds? When you do unsubscribe, does it make you feel dirty inside?

Tags: unsubscribe, rss feed