Pipe Problems

*Sigh*

I'm getting what I deserve, I guess. Trying to get the Pipes beta to work with Blogger, FeedBurner, and the variety of RSS Readers is probably just not going to work right. The RSS feed looks (basically) correct, but what I'm seeing in Google Reader is jacked. I'm posting this piece primarily to see whether the problems were temporary or if they're ongoing. So if you're subscribed (and this actually shows up,) please help me out by answering the following questions in comments:

• Did you see the post immediately below this, "Expanding my media empire"?
• How many copies of "Older and Bolder" and "New(re)born" appeared in your feed?
• What is the average flight speed of a laden swallow?

Thanks.

RSS Memory

Occasionally, someone posts something they wish they hadn't - too personal, too melodramatic, too typo-ridden, too-too. The sensible thing to do is delete it. Gone. No longer on the blog. A dead post.

Except for those pesky RSS feeds. The RSS feeds are like fjords and those deleted posts just keep pinin' for 'em.

(Damn. That is one crap-fest of a joke there. Some days you get the parrot and some days the parrot gets you.)

Now, *I* have not done this, but someone whose blog I read recently did. Thought I'd give said person a heads up. So here it is. Or here. Personally, I prefer Anka's sweet swingin' style to MFP, but either will serve.

And let's be clear: I like the *covers*, not the shite original by that shite band. "Bigger than the Beatles" my ass.