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Sorry for the RSS Feed mishap!

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:06:52 GMT

OK, so the sleep-deprived minds behind InstantSpot hit the wrong switch this morning, and suddenly on AXNA, coldfusionbloggers.com, and God knows what else, I was being credited with a lot of blog entries that I never wrote. The issue was resolved almost immediately, however, the posts are probably going to continue to show up on the aggregators until they age off. Sorry for the feed spam everyone!

EDIT:
Here is a little more detail for those that were asking -

Bottom line... Aaron and I just completely goofed in a pre-coffee misstep this morning. In our logs we saw this continual 404 on a feed url that doesn't exist in our system. We thought "Hey, let's just point it to the main RSS and have it at least do *something*! Turns out this was a feed url from 3+ years ago when my blog used BlogFusion. So suddenly it started resolving for both AXNA and cfbloggers. As soon as we saw what happened we killed it, but it was too late unfortunately.

New pseudo-steampunk theme on my blog

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:13:00 GMT

I have a new addiction playing with the style editor for my blog... I hate to call this a steampunk theme, simply for the inevitable flow of hardcore steampunk people coming here and telling me about how I don't know what steampunk is... so let's settle for pseudo steampunk shall we?

Regardless, at my current rate I will change it again in a few days anyway! :)

I was also told this week that I look a lot different in my picture than I do in person. I decided to add a headshot that says "Hey look... Dave was up all night coding again." I think it is fairly true to life.

Grand Canyon... It's on!

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT

My father and I decided that this was the year that we would hike the North Rim to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I know this seems crazy, but it is actually a paperwork challenge to be able to hike the Grand Canyon. There is an application process in which you have to fax your request in the 1st day of the month 6 months before the intended date of your trip with a detailed itinerary, including where you will be sleeping and when. We sent faxed our paperwork in and held our breath on the 1st of April, 6 months before we hoped to go in September. After no word for a month we finally contacted them, only to find out that we had been rejected. Discouraged, but not beaten, we laid out the calendar to see if there was another time that would work. We decided that November would be acceptable, albeit a little colder. It should be in the 60s in the bottom of the canyon though where we will spend the majority of our time. Once again, we laid out our itinerary and faxed in on July 1. My dad received a letter today dated July 6, 2005 telling him that they were sorry, but they were unable to accept out application. He spent a good hour walking around the house cussing and feeling terribly disappointed. A bit later my mom noticed there was another letter from the Grand Canyon dated July 7, 2005.

Dear Mr. Shuck, we have accepted your request to hike the Grand Canyon on the dates of November 1, 2 and 3, 2005. Enlcosed are your passes, which you will need to affix to your backpack and carry with you in the canyon. There is no need to stop by the back country headquarters before departing on the trail.

So in 3.5 months, I will be taking this in....