RSSUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: All that info below is well out of date, I do have a new PHP based RSS querying thing which I'm using in my AJAX apps now.Just reasserting what I'm doing with RSS here... my list of feeds from this site can be found here, and he... Writing an Extension for FirefoxLiking this guide to writing a Firefox extension, good work duffblog.Done writ two reviews today String Quartet tribute to The Darkness (rubbish) and Worlds Apart (good) the new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Heating went off... Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) from WebPastiestasty. gotta love that XML stuffspeed is the issue with the stuff that i've tried too.XMLHttpRequest Working ExamplesPid sends me this directory of XMLHTTPRequest examples, from fiftyfoureleven.com, cheers. Having rolled out my band selecter all over the place (as a way of selecting a venue, an event, a board, anything from the database) I'm after writing one for a... Kent traffic XML, from the BBCGoogle Maps Google GroupVery useful group for discussing google map things...Google Maps APIOoh there's a proper Google Maps API now, they've made things like this legit! The old way still works, and the new way means a full recoding, but it will make sure the map app is stable... so it's great for my interactive map of folkestone, but less... the friend of a friend (foaf) projectJust added some FOAF info to this site, more aout it at foaf-project.org. Not sure how it'll help or what it'll do, I like the idea of there being a completely open and owned by no-one Friendster / MySpace type thing... Wonder if this can be used in ... xml namespaces in jqueryHow do I access xml tags in other namespaces using jquery? If I have some xml like: hey yeah woo I can easily get any of the elements with something like $('thing')but how do I get them if the elements are namespaced, like hey yea... RE: xml namespaces in jqueryi dont have an answer to your q (sorry) but was wondering what you make of jquery? i've just started a new project for upmystreet and we're using prototype/scriptaculous but just had a look at the jquery site and it looks quite neat. when are we goin... New JSON feed of my blogOh that'll come in handy for all those mashups based around me you've been planning... Not a straight feed of what I post every day, it searches the content of the site, probably seven or eight years worth of postings now. JSON is "javascript object ... Weather report part twoFerocious rain woke us both up in the night, a proper downpour again. Clare got the fear that the weather might have resulted in our pilot light going out (it happened before), which would mean waking up to cold showers, so I got up to check on it. W... KMLCreated some kml files from my pub / restaurant data on Folkestone Gerald, part of my plan to clean up my maps and things, kml is a standard that's been adopted by google for google earth and maps and things, and is possibly better suited than my exi... Never mind the KMLAll that talk of KML yesterday got me looking at my maps again, they've not worked for ages, not since I added more tagging to all my Folkestone venues... so, not actually using the new kml version of the data, rather old georss xml versions, but at ... bit.ly unshorten api call doesn't work :-(Here's their example oh yeah works fine in JSON but what if I want xml? That's not valid xml, so my xml parser isn't picking it up. Can't have a node starting with a number like that. Why put the value in as one of the node names like that anyway? Wo... A day in an out of health centresClare took Harry to see the nurse this morning, just being over cautious because of his temperature, and the nurse put us at ease. Probably a bug of some kind, nothing to worry about. I came home at lunchtime to take him to some children's health cen...