Finally fixed PyBlosxom RSS renderer

What had been annoying me for ages was that the RSS renderer for PyBlosxom was incorrectly inserting <link>$url</link> instead of <link>$base_url</link>. Finally fixed it as it causing complaints from readers of planet.linuxsa.org.au - the bug was in <install>pyblosxom-1.0.0/Pyblosxom/blosxom.py

While I was at it, I listened to suggestions and increased the refresh time for that planet to hourly, as well as dropping the feeds from LWN and /.

meta | 21 Dec 2004 | #

Marshall Fields

We went to the Marshall Fields downtown store on Saturday to soak up the Christmas spirit a little. Marshall Fields is sort of like John Martins in Adelaide used to be (before David Jones took it over and closed it down :-( It's a traditional old-century department store - warm and friendly service in a big austere building. They have animated puppets in the shop windows, telling the story of Snow White - quite elaborate. Along with a thousand other people we had a look and J enjoyed them I think.

Of course it was cold standing outside viewing the decorated shop windows - on the way in to downtown we saw from some billboards that it was only 6F (-14C). Brrrrrr.

Inside there's the World-famous Walnut Room - nice place to eat - but there was a 4 hour waiting time to get a table - sheesh. Inside the Walnut room there's a 45 foot Christmas tree - an annual must see for Chicago residents - this year its modelled on a 1960's Whitehouse tree - which ties in with the Jacqueline Kennedy revival that's going on right now in Chicago.

So a nice Saturday out - albeit cold sans snow.

travel/chicago | 21 Dec 2004 | #