Author: Dan Dickinson

The template requires two MT plugins to be installed, LastModified and MTPerlScript. LastModified is needed since MT doesn’t let you extract the date an entry was last modified, and MTPerlScript is needed for time conversions to UTC, which is the preferred format for dates.
Mark’s template included a method for including full content from posts as escaped HTML in the content entity. As this is undergoing some political debate, I have left it in but it is not used in my current feed. I have also changed the number of entries within the feed from 5 to 15, to match how MT produces its RSS feed.
There’s a lot of comments in the template, so read over them and strip them out so your feed doesn’t bloat.
Above all else, feel free to reuse this however you’d like; I’d appreciate a trackback if you do, though.

Days off lead to lots of website editing. So here’s what’s new for today.
I have installed SimpleComments, to consolidate the trackbacks and the comments into one big happy bunch. Note that comments now say (x+n responses); left number is comments, right number is trackbacks. Also the javascript popup comments are gone and replaced with the permalink page.
Also on individual archive pages (which have gotten some other bits of reformatting), I’m finally putting my Google API key to good use and pulling back lists of related entries. This only happens for entries with keywords, which…aren’t many, at the moment. Oh well.
Finally, I’ve taken to adapting Mark Pilgrim’s n-Echo template (now that the little kink I found is gone) and now have an n-Echo 0.1 feed. Link is under the flag, way at the bottom of the sidebar.

Beatmania IIDX 9th Style has been out for about a week now. As is to be expected, game-recorded songs are starting to float around the net. I’ve gotten my hands on everything except the hidden songs (thanks, Reo), and I decided for some inexplicable reason to do reviews for them in Haiku format.
Standard rating system disclaimer: I grade out of 100, since that’s what the MP3 rating system is based on. Songs rated 60 or higher go into my standard playlist. Songs over 80 go into my “absolutely no crap” playlist.