When Dish Network first started carrying the Sirius Satellite Radio music channels, I was thrilled. Music from the 1980s! 
Then I expanded my listening to the Broadway hits, dance music, and sometimes heavy metal. 
Now I’ve got Sirius, the regular music channels, plus even more music channels since I upgraded to their bigger package. Now I find myself listening to Gumbo (which plays a lot of Cajun music and ragtime stuff), Little Italy (which plays, oddly enough 
Italian music, plus Frank Sinatra, etc.), and Unforgettable & Swing Kings (which both play Big Band music). Now there’s talk of a merger between Sirius and XM Radio. I wonder if that’ll garner me even more music channels? 
Busy TV night tonight. It’s the return of Jericho, Criminal Minds (if I decide to watch it—I’ve gotten kind of burned out on it), CSI: NY, and Lost.
Since I was gone most of yesterday fixing my blog feeds (more about that in a moment), I didn’t remember to post about Heroes. Great episode! But I was 
when Hiro went to get on the bus because the bus driver was none other than Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman. Very cool! Another thing I found amusing was Hiro and Ando being at the Montecito Hotel & Casino because that’s the fictional hotel on NBC’s Las Vegas. Will we see a crossover episode one of these days?
But on to blog feeds. Per the definition on Wikipedia:
- The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web. Formats such as RSS and Atom are used to structure the XML file.
And since that was about as clear as mud, let’s try this one:
- RSS feed: The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.
The problem I had yesterday was every blog I read suddenly started showing up with every flippin’ post as new. And it wouldn’t stop! But I’ve almost got everything back to what passes for normal. 
On the writing front, last night I wrote a little over a page of notes/pseudo-synopsis on the Kitchen Sink Book. 
I love having satellite music at home… No commercials. Ahhh… all 80’s (or 50’s or 40’s) all the time!
I want to see you submit your book as “The Kitchen Sink” or incorporate that into your title.
Seriously.
Comment by Marianne — February 21, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
So do you get fed the blogs you read? So you don’t have to go and visit each one?
Still not sure I understand.
Comment by Melissa Mc — February 21, 2007 @ 6:18 pm