Syndication, syndication, syndication is all I hear on the web these days. I’ve been providing an RSS 0.91 feed for this site from day one (I think), and now I’ve started supporting Aaron Swartz’s RSS 3.0 standard.

The RSS 3.0 feed for this site was pretty easy to make, all the necessary meta-data gets stored somewhere anyway.

Put on your lederhosen and get ready for some sauerkraut: it’s International German Day! Have a look at some sites related to the wonderful country over there:

• German Toilets: German engineering is better than everywhere else, they say. We say, do something about the loo,
• Funny Phrases: heading to Germany and need to confuse and amuse the locals? Why not spit out a funny German phrase or two? Say number 4 and you’ll have to fight the mädchen off,
• German jokes: Ok, so German jokes aren’t that funny but, um, well, yeah,
• And, of course, Hitler: Now, without trying to offend anyone, apparently Hitler was pretty cool, (if you ignore that Holocaust thing).

Now go forth and tell everyone you meet to enjoy International German Day. If they don’t, we have ways of making them.

I signed up for BlogShares the other day just to try it out. You might have noticed a link about it at the bottom of this page. Or not. I’m quite enjoying the simulation of it all; everything everyone does in the blogsphere, whether they’re part of the game or not, affects everything else. Connectivity at its finest.

In one proper day of playing, I’ve managed to almost triple my money. Although that’s nothing to the hardcore traders, ”m quite proud.

Oh, and Simon , I’m your biggest share-holder at the moment, so get those links going!

At some point during my recent back-end change-over, I invalidated my mark-up in at least 3 places and didn’t notice. Everything should be fixed now and I’ll be checking with the validator more often. Whoops!

Whoever the bright spark behind Vanilla Coke is deserves to be fired, from a cannon into a lions mouth at high-speed. Three sips were enough to make me feel sick. The most awful idea in soft drinks since Tab.