P. S.: Post Scriptum

Finally the time has come. Although I wanted to do this from a long time, only now did I found the time and the technical knowledge to do it:
I divided the blog.
I divided all the Italian posts from the English ones. I created a new blog at http://it.pietrosperoni.it, and my italian posts will, from now on, be posted over there. And only over there. Most of the people (3) who read me (5) either read Italian or English posts. And I am sure it must have been very confusing to scroll through a page and find some posts in English and some in Italian. Plus I always had the sensation that I could not write too much in one language, or possible readers of the other language will just assume the blog contains no information at all for them, and dismiss it. This in time made me slow down posting, as I could not always follow particular threads, that would have involved to post many times, in one language.
But now all this has come to an end.

Of course if you want to read entries from both blogs you should add the rss from the italian blog too. Some topic will remain confined to this blog (like tags, for example), others will remain there (like italian politics), while other will span through both medium (like diet, which already is present in both). The wiki in this case should act like a glue, creating a space where entries from both are aggregated. Plus, being a wiki, I (and whoever wants to come and play) will use it to keep notes, aggregate extra content, and generally make some pages stand out while others will only show the blogs entries, the bookmarks, and the context (i.e. the links from delicious popular page, and from technorati).

Generally it is not a smart idea to to come here every time to see if I have written something. I tend to write when I have something to say, so many days might pass before I say something, then for some days I might make one or more post a day. The solution is to add my rss feeds to your feed reader. Bloglines is a good one. I am sure there are better ones. Feel free to suggest them (as I am always looking for ways to improve).

Now let’s get a bit more technical: making this change also meant getting my hands dirty with MySql Continue reading The Italian blog is born: reasons and technicalities

Speaking about things that should happen, and that have not happen, one thing that I still have not seen is a browser with a feed reader such that when you go to the web page that is linked to a certain feed, it updates the feed and assumes that you have now read that feed. So for example I add Jim feeds, but on a certain period I am just passing through his web page very often. Obviously if he is updating his blog I would see it. The feed reader does not need to give me that information.

I have added the feeds of some major newspaper, but I also often go to the web page, and the result is that bloglines keep on telling me that those feeds have 200 entries that I should look at.

I am getting really annoyed. I use Firefox, and at the moment it is quite useless on a number of sites. As they never stop reloading.

In particular (it seem to me) on all the sites that have a reload. Two among all: bloglines (the left bar). And the home page of La Repubblica. In the first page, according to its source code, it should reload every 3600 seconds. That is every hour. Quite an honest command for a feed reader. On the second every 300 seconds, 5 minutes. Right for a news site.

Instead they download, then the first waits 7 seconds (I checked it) and start download again in a loop. And since blogline is quite slow, this makes everything slow down. The second downloads the page, and then does it again and again without ever stopping.

It is as if he counts the tenth of second instead of the seconds. Then 5 minutes would be 1 second, and 3600 would be 6 seconds.

Now, if I open IE all this does not happen.

Strangely enough this ‘bug’ does not happen only with firefox. I remember a cd burner software that use to reload the page on and on. SO much that I had to disinstal it and find a new one.

I am using Microsoft windows 2000 with service pack 4. I installed every possible service pack and extension available from microsoft.

Any suggestion on what could it be?

I would like not to have to reinstall everything (windows), although I suspect if I do I would solve the problem.

Addendum, June 2005, 6 month later: I showed my problem to my friend who is visiting, he adressed me to adSubtract, which in the PRO version gives the possibility of stripping html code of incoming pages from the reload command. Now everything works fine, and is quite funny to see those commercial pages, reduced to their bare essential. Thanks to both.