nullcortex

Google recently released an update to Reader that gave it a more visually pleasing look and changed some of the functionality.  In playing with the new design, I started to re-tag my subscribed feeds.

I currently feel that my tagging system is a bit substandard. Nearly everything that is tagged Ubuntu also falls under Linux and Tech. Miscellany has everything else that I can’t seem to categorize otherwise, like Futility Closet and Not Always Right.  Also, as you can see, I don’t always get a chance to read every single new item. One person suggested to use a Favorites tag to separate the feeds that they always read away from the others, but I’m not sure how well this would work in practice.

How do you organize your RSS Feeds? Do you use Google Reader or does some other application (preferably not locked in to one computer) work better for you?

While my laptop was under the knife during the past week or so, I was using my Linode to get my Ubuntu fix.  Although I have quite a bit of space free, I wanted to avoid installing extra packages that I would only end up using while my other computer was out of commission.

One such package was devscripts; I make heavy use of the rmadison command when doing support in #ubuntu.  While I could probably have easily just used the basic interface for searching, I wanted something a bit nicer.  I settled for using Mozilla’s Mycroft to create a SearchPlugin that could be added to Firefox’s search bar.

The plugin itself can be found here.