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Highlander – The Search For Vengeance

The animation was really good, however the storyline seemed a bit rushed. It was great that they mixed real history into it, but there wasn’t really much time to develop the characters and explain the back story. I’m guessing they were assuming that everyone’s watched the original Highlander and knew what quickening is, but the animated movie was basically fight after fight, which may be a good thing for some. The fight scenes were indeed really cool.

Official Site
IMDb: User Rating: 7.4/10
Anime News Network
Amazon.com DVD
MY RATING: 7/10

You can watch the trailer on the official site.

highlander - the search for vengeance poster dvd cover

Spoilers: (Show)

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One Dead Roomba Later…

So one of my Roomba Schedulers died a week or 2 ago. Yes, I owned more than 1 Roomba Scheduler. Yes, carrying the Roomba one flight of stairs is more work than I would like to do.

My Roomba was making a quacking sound (like a duck’s quack) when I would tell it to go clean. It actually sounded more like a short ‘meh’. Going through iRobot’s FAQ, I found this article: What is Roomba saying to me? The 2nd row appeared to be my problem: “Ehh” (Play Sound)

It suggested: The cliff sensors are dirty or malfunctioning, or the battery is need recharging

The battery definitely doesn’t need recharging as it’s been charging for a week and the color is green. I took a can of compressed air and started squirting at the cliff sensors. At first I had no idea what cliff sensors were, but apparently there’s 4 of them around the front bumper which helps detects stairs and drops so they don’t go charging downhill. If you still can’t spot them, you can take a look at their diagram here: What are Cliff Sensors?

That didn’t help along with their other suggestions. I submitted a support ticket and their reply was basically the same. They said if that didn’t fix it, I should provide them with the serial number of my Roomba and they can escalate this, which I’m assuming they’ll send a replacement part or even a whole new Roomba. Interestingly enough, after a night of having the Roomba sit on my desk, it started working, but failed about 5 minutes later making the “ehh” sound.

Their customer support has been great. I believed I mentioned this already. Last time the plastic thing on my Roomba’s trash bin was starting to rip and they said they’d ship me a new one immediately. However, the trash bin was out of stock, and instead they shipped me a compatible trash bin (which was of a different color) and said after the correct color trash bin was in stock, they’d ship that one to me too.

However, I decided to take the easy way out. Given the fact I purchased this from Costco last July, I brought it back and got a refund and purchased a new one. The guy asked me if there was a problem and I was honest and told him it stopped working and would make a beeping sound. I asked if they had anymore in stock and if there was, can I do an exchange. He goes (as I expected him to say), that he would have to refund me the money and I could go and purchase the new one and there were indeed 23 in stock.

Interestingly enough, the Roomba was currently on sale. Online, it shows ($269.99 – $50) $219.99 shipped, but in store, the actual price was $209.99 ($259.99 – $50). So I made off with $50 + tax difference. Sweet!

While I was at Costco, I also got my tires rotated and rebalanced. I’m always skeptical about their system as they never needed me to verify my identity when I picked up my keys. I guess people here are just that honest. I told them my car was the silver Honda Civic and they told me it would be ready in 2 minutes. They handed me my invoice of $0 and told me to bring it over to the garage. After showing them the invoice, they handed the keys over to me.

Another funny coincidence happened today. Since I had plenty of food at home, my only damage today was a Roomba Scheduler, which couldn’t really be considered damage as I walked out of Costco with more money than I came in with. Take that for a change. Anyway, while I was waiting for my car to be ready, I was enjoying the nice warm weather eating a churro. There was another man who’s only purchase was also a Roomba Scheduler. I thought interesting…

Then I walked into the Tire Center and there he was. He was also getting his tires rotated. Another coincidence. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the same car as me. Oh well, I thought those 2 coincidences were interestingly enough to share.

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A Mom’s Touch

As many of you might’ve heard, my mom came to visit me this past month. As ChemChampion corrected me, this shouldn’t be considered a “visit”, but rather a “stay”, maybe “long stay”. Anyway, I had imagined the worst, where my mom would nag me to wake up, nag me to go to sleep, nag me to go take a shower, but it was completely opposite and I was somewhat surprised and actually enjoyed her company. The morning after she left (I dropped her at the airport last Sunday), I felt somewhat empty, somewhat lonely, as I had started to get accustomed to waking up in the morning and seeing her.

Her stay lasted 4 weeks (a little short of a month), and during that time, I’ve had plenty of good home cooked food to eat. She’s also help tidy up my place quite a bit. Remember those boxes that I haven’t touched since I moved in? Welp, she’s made the storage room quite roomy instead of having boxes everywhere. There are still stuff that’s unopened, but they’re stacked nicely at least instead of thrown around everywhere. She’s also helped clear my breakfast table which I’ve been using to store junk and we’ve actually used it to eat dinner on.

breakfast table

Knowing that I have a brown thumb maybe even black thumb (in contrast to green thumb – An expression used to describe someone’s affinity/skill at gardening or growing plants.) and every plant I touched dies, in order to make my place more homey and lively, she got me some fake plants.

dining table

Notice how both tables now have table cloths? Yep, those weren’t there before.

I even have plants in my bathroom now!

bathroom

The best part of course was the food. I actually went to supermarkets to buy real food for once. She cooked so much food before she left and put it into little plastic containers, I’m not even half way through yet. My fridge finally has stuff other than Gatorade, water bottles, soda cans, and microwave food.

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Interestingly, while my mom was here, my Costco supplies diminished quite quickly. My gallon of Kikkoman soy sauce which I bought at Costco at least a year ago was still half full when she arrived. By the time she left, we had needed to get a new gallon. Paper towels and toilet paper also disappeared quite quickly. I understand women need more toilet paper and since I’m at work half the time, I use their toilets there half the time. A roll usually takes me about a month to use up. Lets just say we’ve almost depleted my 40-something pack of Kirkland Signature toilet paper.

Another great thing was she did all my laundry. She did it a lot more frequently then me. I usually do laundry every 3 weeks. She does it every 3 days. My laundry reminder is when I run out of underwear. Her laundry reminder is when there’s enough for 1 load.

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Why Consumerist Is Evil

I’m a big fan of Consumerist, well, at least used to be. I still read their blog posts, but they have a very different agenda than what I’d expect. I thought their main goal was to educate and help protect consumers, but through misinformation, I often question if the good they do offset the damage they cause. Along the way, they might protect consumers, but when you spread both truth and lies, it becomes hard to as a reader to distinguish making me cautious in trusting anything they put out.

Of course it could be due to the different authors they have. Some may be genuinely good, while others I can only describe as having a questionable agenda.

Take for example this recent post: Forever Stamps Are A Scam, I would like you to share my comment:

Actually, Consumerist were the ones that decided to spin what Slate said. Just look at the title and the 1st sentence:

Forever Stamps Are A Scam

By law, “Forever Stamps” won’t save you any money, says Slate.

First of all, the word “scam” and the phrase “save money” never appear in the article. All the article talks about is the absurdity of some people wanting to invest in “forever stamps”, which to be honest, did cross my mind, however after simple calculations and later on this article further solidified, was in fact a bad investment choice.

Consumerist decided to take this article and spin it to make you believe that Slate said these stamps are a scam and won’t save you money.

I honestly question if the author of this Consumerist piece actually read the article…

This is one in many many questionable posts that I’ve replied to and it angers me that the authors take these things lightly and won’t come out and correct their mistake, even when I tell them about it. I’ve submitted fewer and fewer stories to them as I don’t think they deserve my support anymore. They take a story and try to make the most absurd headline to attract readers. Their main agenda appears to be attract readers in hopes to generate ad revenue.

Other questionable posts include advertisement of a sandwich shop (twice) as a main story. What does that even have to do with Consumerist. If it was a restaurant review blog, I wouldn’t have cared. But the story has in no way a helpful consumer story. Then there’s the garage sale post awhile back where they talk about getting rid of junk (good thing) and goes on to list all their stuff on sale on eBay. They welcomed others to post their eBay listings on that page, but you know the sole purpose of that post was to get more eyes on their eBay auctions. Then there was an rather useless article about how Chase is spending money putting up posters around New York. What the *beep* was that about!?!? This is just simple marketing. Why pick on Chase? This list can go on and on…

I really want the old Consumerist back, but that’s like asking for the old Slashdot back, probably something that won’t happen.

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Kohl’s Care for Kids Plush

I got some new plushies! These were on sale at Kohl’s for $2.50 each, plus all profits are donated to Children’s hospitals: 100% of net profits are donated to designated children’s hospitals across the country. Visit our corporate site to learn more about Kohl’s Cares for Kids.
kohl's cares for kids plush

I got a rhino, a pig, and a dog. They also had a chicken, but that went out of stock before I could get it. They’re extremely soft and bigger than what I thought they would be. Since my sister’s a big fan of piggies, she’s going to get the pig. The rhino’s awfully cute! They’re still on sale at Kohl’s for $2.50, but the 99¢ shipping is no longer available. People over at SD claimed that you might have some luck finding it in-store. The chicken is now back in-stock, but the pig is gone.

Random Crap:

“Try Sperm” Exhorts Vitamin Water Commercial – Someone captured this ad of vitamin waters suggesting you to “try sperm”: vitamin sperm – what’s in the water. I believe they mentioned something about sperm whales, but subliminal message?

vitaminwater - try sperm

Cat with Bow Golf (from Digg) – ねこゆめごるふ (neko yume golf) which translates to cat dream golf. This was actually a rather fun game once I got the hang of it. There’s no need to understand Japanese here. The games pretty simple. There’s 18 holes. You control a cat with a bow. Click on the cat to load next arrow. Pull back to choose power and direction. Your goal is to lead the cat to the bullseye target. Don’t fall off the map. However, your arrows can hit the board, but the cat will start falling immediately after you load your next arrow. The cool thing is you can fire your next arrow mid-air, which is needed in some of these levels. My best score so far is -41, though I did still make some mistakes.

Mod a $5 flashlight into a $95 light (from Digg) – Reader Kip modded a cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch that’s brighter than a $95 fancy pants flashlight. Hit the play button to see how.

Pub told to change tricky bathroom signs – Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire’s Irish Pub have played jokes on customers for years, sending women to the men’s room and vice versa. Check out the actual sign below:
mcguire's irish pub - toilet signs

Dell’s ultra-thin LCD concept with DisplayPort going retail? (from Digg) – Remember that super swanky Dell monitor concept we went ga ga over back at January’s CES? Yeah, we still find it hard to believe it’s a Dell design. Well, it’ll apparently be up for sale later in the year. What’s more, it features the new VESA approved DisplayPort 1.1 interface which allows Dell to keep the panel depth to a crazy thin 0.5-inches. Although DisplayPort is said to support a resolution 4x that of today’s HDTV resolutions, the panel on this pup was only pumping an estimated 1920 x 1200 when we saw it. No specs or price but we expect good things given Dell’s past performance in delivering top-notch displays on the cheap. I agree… I find it hard to believe that Dell actually hires designers.

Meatballs made from human fat, anyone? – Last year, Chilean-born artist Marco Evaristti mixed fat removed from his body by liposuction with ground beef to make meatballs, which he fried in olive oil and displayed in a public gallery. This year, he plans to climb Western Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border, colour the summit pink and declare it an independent state, with himself as president. Something about this just wants to make me throw up.

soccer field (from Digg) – how does one play on a slanted soccer field with about a 45 degree slope.

Psych meds drove my son crazy (from Digg) – At 17, my son was a funny, odd autistic boy. But a misdiagnosis turned him into a violent, unpredictable man, and drove our family to the brink. Thank god this story had a happy ending. It was a bit painful to read, but I’m happy their kid is returning back to normal.

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An easy guide to protecting your identity

Speak of the devil. Just a few days ago I mentioned check fraud and secure ink. Today in the mail, I received from Staples SpeakEasy, a program where they send you new products for free before they launch in hopes to get some feedback. I’ve gotten cd wallets, staplers, mousepad, etc. This month they’re featuring an identity protection theme which included 2 Uni-ball 207 Retractable Gel-Ink Pens and an “An easy guide to protecting your identity.” booklet.

The gel pens feature a “specially formulated ink – helps prevent check fraud”. I had mentioned about “secure” ink a few days ago.

I was about to throw the booklet away when I noticed it was endorsed if not partially written by Frank Abagnale. If that doesn’t ring the bell, it’s the character that Leonardo DiCaprio played in Catch Me If You Can. He’s also the real guy that cashed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks.

Flipping through the book, I was shocked to find it would be extremely useful to someone who’s not familiar with identity theft and how to protect oneself. The booklet has about 40 pages and if I wasn’t lazy, I’d scan the booklet for you to check it out.

The main topics he brings up is:

  • Checking your credit report three times a year
  • Shredding outdated personal information
  • Using tricky passwords
  • Installing firewalls and antivirus software
  • Taking in your mail as soon as it’s delivered

Of course Staples takes this opportunity to introduce you to their secure ink pens, their microcut shredder, and even their security software bundle.

Another interesting section is how to detect when your identity has been compromised. He gives examples of how to go through a credit report, how to only use 1 standard name for everything you apply for, and question why a certain individual/company would want your your social security number, etc.

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Forever Stamp

So as you’ve probably heard with the recent postage prices being raised, USPS (United States Postal Service) has introduce the Forever Stamp. I actually picked up a pack of 20 when I was at Safeway earlier this week. Nothing too fancy. Has a picture of a bell and on the said it says: USA FIRST-CLASS FOREVER. Ungsunghero and I jokingly discussed about “investing” in forever stamps and wait a number of years and sell them back out. However, we’ve decided the return would be less than ideal, probably worst than the 5% interest rate we get at an online savings account.

Then I read this article: Should I Invest in “Forever” Stamps? (from Digg) – Absolutely not.:

The postal rate climbed 2 cents on Monday, about a month after the United States Postal Service introduced its new “forever” stamp. As of last week, the USPS had sold more than $82 million worth of the forever stamps, which lock in the 41-cent rate for eternity. One man in Pennsylvania walked into a post office and made an $8,000 investment on his own. Should we all be stocking up?

Absolutely not. Since 1971, postal rates have increased more slowly than the actual inflation rate, as measured by the U.S. Consumer Price Index. So, despite the numerous rate hikes over the last 36 years, stamps have actually been getting cheaper. The 20-cent stamp from 1981, for instance, would be equivalent to 45 cents in today’s dollars—which makes today’s rate 10 percent cheaper than it was 26 years ago. Should this historical pattern hold, you’d be paying more for today’s forever stamps than you would for any stamp in the future, no matter how high the rate goes.

However, the forever stamp is an excellent idea and although it may be a less than ideal investment plan, the idea behind it has been long due. It would certainly make life easier as you wouldn’t have to go to the post office and purchase 2¢ stamps immediately after a raise. It’s definitely a lot more convenient to the consumer. Like right now, I have 3 39¢ stamps left which probably won’t be used until I have to mail a letter that’s more than 1oz, or the next time I drop by the post office to purchase some more 2¢ stamps, which hardly ever happens as the post office is a crazy place I tried to avoid at all costs.

However, lets take a step back and look at the investment plan. The plan may actually work if you’re precise. If you were to purchase a whole bunch of forever stamps right before the next raise (let’s assume 41¢ to 43¢), meaning to purchase it at 41¢ and sell them at 43¢. If you could sell them all off in 3 months, that’s a 19.5% APR. So an $8,000 investment in 3 short months have become $8390.24. Of course this is assuming you can sell it at face value and so on.

But let’s take the most ideal situation. Currently you get 5% back on certain credit cards when you make purchases at supermarkets, making a 41¢ stamp closer a little less than 39¢. Lets say you offer a 1¢ discount to those who purchase from you (selling it for 42¢ instead of 43¢), basically giving them a 2.3% discount from the post office rates. If you can sell off all your stamps in 3 months, that’s a 7.8% gain in 3 months, or 31.3% APR. However, as noted, these are the ideal conditions and you can only do it every time USPS decides to bump fees, however those are usually announced far in ahead and you can prepare yourself if you’re planning to do this.

Another interesting topic was brought up while talking to Ungsunghero and somehow the topic of working at the post office came up. I divulged my ideas of how the post office should change and become extremely competitive. Today UPS, FedEx, and DHL, offer online postage printing with no extra fees. You get the same rates online as you would at your local shipping outlet. However, the inconvenient part of UPS, FedEx, and DHL is that you actually have to drop it off at a shipping counter, either that be Kinkos or Office Depot, it’s not as convenient as just dropping it into your mail box or giving it to your postman, which you know comes every day around a certain time.

USPS already offers free postage printing for Priority Mail and Express Mail, but for first class, media mail, and parcel mail, they are only offering it through other services like Pitney Bowes, which charges a fee every time you use them. Just like I find the fact that E-file for taxes charges you a fee to save them time is ridiculous, it’s the same with USPS charging a fee for you to print postage. With online postage printing, you don’t have to hire as many clerks to man the post office, save the cost of printing stamps as the customer will print their own, and every letter will have a verified address and maybe even a barcode to help sorting.

However, to print USPS postage without any fees today, you have to go through a hack via PayPal: Print USPS First Class, Media Mail, Parcel Mail Postage for FREE!

If only I could knock some sense into USPS and the IRS.

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Music and Lyrics

This movie was actually rather fun to watch. A pretty feel good movie talking about a has-been 80s pop star trying to come back. Drew Barrymore was pretty cute in it too.

Official Site
IMDb: User Rating: 6.8/10 (8,759 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: B- / Yahoo! Users: B
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 64% / Average Rating: 6/10
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com DVD
Amazon.com Soundtrack
Amazon.com HD DVD
Amazon.com Blu-ray
MY RATING: 6/10

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Spoilers: (Show)

Do check out the music video they made for this video:
PoP! Goes My Heart – Music & Lyrics (from FuzzyWuzzy)

The song’s actually quite catchy, despite how funny it is. As FuzzyWuzzy says:

haha
music and lyrics is so bad it’s good
god i love hugh grant movies
i wasn’t going to lose my head but then pop…goes my heart…
oh god that’s the best fucking lyric ever!!!!
so new wave
</sarcasm>

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Secret Sauce

RayAlome linked me to this video: United 300 which is a parody on what I can only assume to be a merge of United Flight 93 (during 9/11) and 300 (the new movie with Leonidas and his 300 Spartans). Hilarious parody I must say.

This ultimately led me to their website: Secret Sauce, which had a ton more hilarious parodies. Here’s a few I wanted to share:

  • The Defarted – The follow up to the Academy Award winning film. A spoof on The Departed about farting
  • Little Miss Jackass – Little Miss Sunshine’s Olive Hoover does stunts, a 9-year-old girl would Never do! Submitted for consideration in the 2007 MTV MOVIE AWARDS SPO
  • How to Bang My Wife – a parody of The Fray’s How to Save A life about trying to convince your wife to have sex with you.
  • HairyBack – a parody of Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack about hairy chests and backs.

Random Crap:

Patada subte Times Square (from Chokoboii) – algun dia me tenia que tocar a mi filmar algo asi. While break dancing, a little toddler wanders into the dance area and gets back-flip kicked. OUCH! A day or 2 later, someone’s made a remix of it: REMIX: Patada subte Times Square Techno Video Game Remix (from RayAlome). I couldn’t help but laugh.

My eBay Fox – My Friendly Fox (from Digg) – MyEBayFox is a version of the popular Firefox web browser that has been customized to provide you with a better eBay experience. Not really suggesting you to switch over to My eBay Fox, but I thought the fox was awfully cute!

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Details emerge on IRS plans to tax eBay auctions – Internet auction sites will only be required to report customer revenue information if the customer does more than 100 separate transactions in a fiscal year and generates more than $5,000 in gross proceeds. Yay! I’m not covered!

Bank sells house complete with owner’s corpse – The corpse, preserved by salty air in the seaside town of Roses after an apparent death by natural causes, was discovered by Jorge Giro, who entered the house for the first time on Saturday after buying it at the auction, El Pais said.

Woman, cops exchange pepper spray blasts – Clay was originally going to be charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. She now faces felony battery and drug charges, plus misdemeanor charges. Sigh…

Baby issued Illinois gun ID card – Bubba Ludwig can’t walk, talk or open the refrigerator door — but he does have his very own Illinois gun permit. … The card lists the baby’s height (2 feet, 3 inches), weight (20 pounds) and has a scribble where the signature should be. You’d think there’d be some age requirement to own a gun…

Indian train driver asks passengers to push – Hundreds of Indian rail passengers got more than they had bargained for when the driver of their train asked them to get out and push. It took more than half an hour to move the stalled electric train 12 feet (4 metres) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey, officials said on Wednesday.

An Amputee Sprinter: Is He Disabled or Too-Abled? (from Digg) – Pistorius wants to be the first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics. But despite his ascendance, he is facing resistance from track and field’s world governing body, which is seeking to bar him on the grounds that the technology of his prosthetics may give him an unfair advantage over sprinters using their natural legs. Interesting… I’m not sure where I stand on this issue, but I do know, if people are allowed to modified their bodies to compete and if it’s proven that having these prosthetic legs allow you to run faster, many will be willing to chop off their own legs in order to compete for the gold. It’s the same reason why some people might want to become cyborgs or fuse weapons with their bodies. You can tell I’ve watched way too much anime. Then again, does becoming an amputee render you incapable of competing against regular people. It’s a tough question and I’m not sure there’s 1 correct answer.

* BE FOREWARNED, THE FOLLOWING LINKS CONTAIN DISTURBING AND DISGUSTING PHOTOS * I thought I knew insane. I didn’t know insane. (from Digg) – A very sad and disturbing story about the roommate from hell. While leaving poo everywhere was a side effect, she obviously needed help. Another blog entry has popped up about roommates from hell: People lived here – A guy from England rented his flat, people were living there and go away. and when the host returned he saw it.

The Lighthouse: An Innovative Green Skyscraper – The Lighthouse is another innovative green skyscraper to be constructed in Dubai. For energy generation, it will have three enormous 225 kilowatt wind turbines (29 meters in diameter), and 4000 photovoltaic panels on the south facing façade. To optimize performance and operational periods, the turbines have windward directional wind vanes or limited yaw. I really want to visit Dubai one of these days.

Strange alien world made of ‘hot ice’ (from /.) – Although the parent star is much cooler than the Sun, the planet orbits 13 times closer to the star than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun. That means the surface must be a blazing hot 300° C or more, keeping water in its atmosphere in vapor form. But the high pressures in the planet’s interior would compress the water so much that it would stay solid even at hundreds of degrees Celsius – the expected temperatures inside the planet. There are a variety of exotic ‘hot ice’ states possible in such conditions, with names like ‘Ice VII’ and ‘Ice X’.

Making work even more of a slog takes weight off – Think work feels like a treadmill now? Try a new desk designed at the Mayo Clinic. … On average, their overweight volunteers burned 100 calories more every hour while walking slowly — at 1 mile per hour (1,6 km per hour) — than while sitting in a chair. Interesting concept. I wonder if I’d get annoyed to have to constantly walk.

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Gallery RSS Feeds

I finally got around to figure out how the RSS feeds plug-in for Gallery2 works. I still haven’t figured out how to define rss feeds yet, but I’ve got simple feeds working for every album and item. I doubt RSS feeds for items would be of any use at the moment as it’s an RSS feed of comments, which I haven’t really enabled yet. But it came free when I defined RSS feeds for albums, so why not I thought.

First you’ll need to download the RSS plug-in from Site Admin > Plugins > Get More Plugins.

After you install and activate it, you’ll notice a new category (RSS) in your Admin Options. On the settings page, you can define the max number of items in each feed, how long before rss feed aggregators refetch (aka TTL: time to live), and some other stuff. I left all the settings to be default.

On the next tab (Simple Feed Settings), you’ll find settings for the simple feed generator. Every item and album has its own simple feed which can be reached at:
main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&g2_itemId=itemId
(replace itemId with the item’s id)

Anyway, it defaults to items in this album only, so it ignores items in sub-albums. I’ve enabled “Items in the album and its subalbums”, which is the slowest of the bunch, but I would like to be able to subscribe to my main gallery RSS feed and be able to get updates for everything.

On the wikipage for the RSS Feed plugin, they mention if you enable the RSS feed block, it’ll enable hidden page headers which will give you the RSS feed icon in most modern browsers. However, I wasn’t able to get that working even when I enabled the RSS feed block. It might be because I’m using a non-standard theme: Ajaxian.

Also, since I don’t have any specially configured RSS feeds, all my RSS feeds block just shows this message: No feeds have yet been defined

Therefore, I decided to remove that block and just manually add it to the theme. If you goto /themes/themeName/templates (replace themeName with the theme you’re using. by default, it’s matrix), you’ll find a file called theme.tpl. Open that up in your favorite text editor and add this line after your stylesheet:

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”/main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&g2_itemId={$theme.item.id}” />

I also noticed that my favicon.ico was no longer available for my Gallery. Must’ve forgotten to move it over when I transferred my gallery to this subdomain. Anyway, that’s fixed now.