Something else I might need to code around

For those that read the LiveJournal feed [1] of this site, I apollogize for sending a flood of entries your way.

It's something I have to remember—that the <title> element of the RSS feed (Really Simply Syndication) [2] cannot contain named HTML (HyperText Markup Language) entities since RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is messed up that way. I need to use the numeric versions.

What happened is this—I titled an October 7^th entry [3] “A Møøse once bit my sister …” and used &oslash;&oslash; in the title. The LiveJournal [4] RSS parser rejected the feed because of that. And because of that, my entries since the 7^th haven't been showing up.

I just became aware of the situation and fixed the title (by replacing &oslash;&oslash; with &#248;&#248;) which means a sudden influx of twelve (or thirteen if this gets in with the current batch) entries.

Sorry about that.

[1] http://bostondiaries.livejournal.com/

[2] https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss

[3] /boston/2006/10/07.1

[4] http://www.livejournal.com/

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