I’ve spent some time tonight trying to get my OMPL file “shared.” I’ve started by posting it to Share Your OPML. I then decided that I wanted to use this as my blogroll - I hadn’t posted the internal wordpress blogroll to the new theme so it seemed better to utilize an existing structure to post links (I wasn’t interested in WP’s internal OPML importing). So yes, down the rabbit’s hole - grabbed an OPML parser, hacked that up to produce the relevant code for the OPML file, grabbed the moo.fx library so I could use the accordion plugin (in the old days this wasn’t a plugin which shows how far the moo library has come) and then styled it up a bit so I wouldn’t gouge my eyes out.

It’s still not pretty but it’s there. And the one thing I’ve noticed as I’ve done this is how out of whack my feeds are - they really aren’t categorized very well and the titles that come through for many of these just aren’t appropriate or easy to follow. Even my own feed (which i subscribe to myself so as to keep track) was not quite right. I used the overrides in feedburner to fix that (just a note in case your reader decides to update things). Still an interesting exercise and while I’m not done-done, it’s close enough for me to go ahead and plop it onto the homepage (it’s halfway down the sidebar). It’s all about iterations, right?

The girl behind the video, Leah Kauffman, showed up on MSNBC Live over the weekend. According to the internets she’s 21 years old and attends Temple University. The brains behind the deal appears to be the same one that did box in my box. Talk about your 15m of fame. Regardless of what you might think on an intellectual level I wonder how much this will actually resonate with people. It is a catchy (if simple) tune after all - well produced given it’s youtube-esque roots. Such is the beauty of the age we live in - anyone can produce a nice, well produced video now for mass consumption. I think obama picks up votes and even more name recognition off of it whether he wants to or not.

It beats the hell out of Hillary picking Celine Dion’s “You and I” - wtf?

There are no words to describe the awesomeness of this stroller. Look closely above the baby’s head - fucking snow speeders, man! The blog entry is definitely worth a read for the backstory…