So.\n
My RSS aggregator is dead.\n
Actually, there’s been a lot of computer crap around these parts. Remember, a year ago, when amongst the questions for Gentle Readers<\/a> YHB asked about my tortoise-like computer? Well, I finally decided to go ahead and pay for RAM, to get my old machine from 120MB to 1G. Once the sticks got put in, the computer began rebooting itself every ten minutes, just for fun. Well, I’ve got to the point where half the purchased RAM allows the computer to more or less work without interruption, and I am able once again to use a relatively recent iTunes (well, 4, but there it is). And, of course, once something changes in a chaotic system such as Windows OS, there are odd and unpredictable repercussions, which include a completely bitched RSS reader.\n Now, there are worse things than a screwy aggregator. For one thing, I could always get another aggregator. I could even upgrade my current one, which is 1.0.7 of a program with a 1.5.0.8. You know, I remember when it was a joke that somebody would release a 1.5 edition. Anyway, I could easily get a working aggregator again, and I probably should get right on that. On the other hand, it’s been interesting to be without it for a couple of weeks now.\n I was up to about forty feeds on the aggregator before it went wacky on me. One set concerned themselves with news about the San Francisco Giants, and I am probably better off without the off-season rantings about who has been signed, and where, and for how much, and for how long. I can keep up with the important news without trying very hard, and the odds are that I will have a working reader before Pitchers and Catchers Report.\n Then there was the set of blogs that didn’t get updated often enough. Although it’s true that Clive Thompson chose the moment of aggregator failure to not only return to blogging, but wonder if RSS feeds meant that he would get back a fair percentage of his pre-hiatus readers<\/a>, on the whole, I think I can reasonably just give up on Mark Schmitt updating The Decembrist<\/a>. Although, you know, Mr. Thompson is right, insofar as if Mr. Schmitt did<\/I> update his blog, and if I did<\/I> have it on my aggregator, I would be happy to know about it and read it. And if he starts updating and I miss it, I’ll be all cranky. And I’ll probably keep clicking on Baraita<\/a>, because, hey, she took two months off this summer and came back with a bunch of really interesting posts. But then, it’s annoying to keep clicking and not see any new posts, and I get cranky that way, too.\n