Anyone who's been reading here knows that Syndirella keeps losing my data. I guess the author realized that this is a problem, because he took lots of steps to stop that from happening again in the most recent build
Syndirella automatically backs up its data file, and automatically loads the backup if loading of the latest version failed. Also, when saving data, it saves to a temporary location first, and replaces the real file with saved data only after the save has been successfully completed. This greatly reduces the probability of losing all the Syndirella subscription data in case of a crash.
Plus, he explains why some of the crashes may have been happening in the first place:
The changes to the locking code introduced in the previous build were incorrect, causing people to have deadlocks and other problems. These problems are now corrected.
Hey, and he realized this problem too[1]
The handling of the isPermaLink attribute of the <guid> element was totally broken.
And awesome, this sounds like a feature I've been wanting, where you can view a list of all new items in a feed in one screen rather than having to view each item individually:
Reviewing today's items: Two things are coming here. First, Syndirella will probably get the ability to show an aggregated list of all posts in a group (or in all subscribed feeds). Second, it will be possible to mark an item as "permanent" and to see the list of all items with this mark. But both of these will have to wait until 0.92.
And better ways to organize feeds is coming in version .92:
Feed sorting: Coming in version 0.92. I do not want to implement something temporary now, because I would have to scrape this code after 0.91 is released and the new feed list implementation goes in.
I can go back to using Syndirella now! I've been depressed about the situation 
Footnotes:
[1]: I really should have been submitting bug reports to him, but I figured since it's such an early version he probably knew about a lot of these problems, and many other problems I haven't even noticed
If you define science as repeatable, reliable, observational fact, it's obvious that evolution doesn't really qualify as science. People make these huge jumps; they see these tiny changes happening today, and so they conclude that all life forms have arisen from chemicals by a continuous process over millions of years. That's not science, that's a belief.
Exactly
from http://answersingenesis.org/docs/3724.asp?srcFrom=aignews
I actually had a very interesting opportunity, a head start in a sense, because at that time, these academics were dogmatically teaching the gradualistic theory of evolution as fact. They had not yet caught up with the way some fossil experts overseas were beginning to admit that there really weren't all these in-between fossils. They were proposing a new theory, evolution happening in fits and starts ("punctuated equilibrium") to try to deal with this. So I could use their admissions to point out the fallacies in what people believed to be fact.
Via here, Try to Hack. Pretty fun, but a complete waste of time. I'm on level 4 now.
Given my recent problems with Syndirella[1], I'm looking to potentially write my own RSS aggregator in Python.
I have some interface ideas, as well as some backend ideas. To make an aggregator I'd want to use, it'd need to use remote scripting as well as threading. Here's an article from IBM developerWorks on remote scripting, and here's a page from Microsoft on RS. I'm not really sure what support Python has for threading yet, so I'm doing my research.
Ok, Python has good enough threading support The Python Essential Reference is awesome.
Footnotes:
[1]: disclaimer: I realize that Syndirella is an alpha quality product right now. For this point in its development it's actually very good, and it's only going to get better. I'll very likely never finish what I'm talking about in this post. Either way, I figured this research would be useful...
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