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twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.01.25

Over the past few years, many people have asked me to put an RSS feed on this website. The basic idea is that readers can "subscribe" to updates to the site and have those updates actively pushed to them rather than requiring the reader to come back.

Never been my cup of tea, as it were, but I've done it now in large part because I'm building a new business that is Internet-based, and I figure that having content to push out to people is the best way of making that happen. Further to that, I've learned how to automate the generation of the feed so that whenever I publish new material (even something as simple as this journal entry) it'll get picked up in a matter of hours.

Now to get the content "syndicated". I've started with feedburner.com, a Google property, thanks to a lead from Lee of LoneleePlanet. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.