Little Red Blog

First off, thanks to those who've sent emails of support for the threat assessment project. I'm even more convinced it's needed, and more concerned that I do it well.

Second, received notice today that I've been accepted into the Media Bloggers Association. Many of you are aware of the organization but if you aren't, you should go check out their site, where you'll be able to determine by the excellent folks behind the effort, that its worthwhile and just might be for you.

Third, while working on the new site I sought a means to include an RSS feed (actually several different feeds) into the site but needed to be able to control the content of the feeds, rather than just taking all of a news or site feed. That led to del.icio.us which allows for the building of the feeds, add some perl (for parsing the XML) and cron jobs for regular updating and you have an excellent means of adding content without rebuilds or manipulating the php include files manually. I'll post the code I used eventually, and the feeds will be on the new site, along with their RSS feeds if you want to get them via your RSS reader or include them on your site.

And finally, there is, as expected, much going on worth blogging so I'll be back later this evening with a news and notes post on some items of particular interest. But first, I've got to read your blogs.

UPDATE: News and Notes will have to wait till morning, which isn't far off.