w00t!
The Pioneers dispatched Mount Vernon Nazarene on Friday night and Indiana Wesleyan last night. They play again tomorrow night vs Northwestern (IA) . This is the second straight year the Pioneers have made it to the Final Four. Pretty Sweet.
Archive - March, 2007
Plenty of Potent Pipes Potential
Right after griping about Yahoo, I’m going to give them some props for Pipes. I’m big on RSS. What’s cooler than being able to hack together a feed based on whatever they heck you want?
Technically, I could take all 61 RSS feeds that I’m subscribed to in Google Reader and mash them up into a single RSS feed and filter it with Pipes. That’s pretty cool. I think I’ve only scratched the surface with it too, there’s an interactivity element to it as well that I haven’t tried at all.
In my first experiment I mashed up the feeds from two of my co-workers blogs with the feed from this site. Here’s the page if you want to take a look. You’ll probably have to have a Yahoo! Id to see it.
It basically reads in the RSS files from each of them, does a SQL-like union of the results, sorts it, limits the rows returned and spits out the results.
O, the possiblities.
Pioneers advance to 2nd round
My MidAmerica Nazarene University Pioneers advanced to the second round last night by beating Trinity 69-59 in the National NAIA Division II tournament. My favorite quote from the article:
MidAmerica went into halftime ahead 36-28 and the only reason it was that close was because the Pioneers looked bored.
C’mon guys…. Gotta stick it to ‘em.
Create a custom RSS feed from Google News
I was wanting to keep up to date on my Pioneers and their run in the 2007 National NAIA Tournament. I couldn’t find a RSS feed for NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball. I had to have a feed.
So here’s the trick:
Browse to news.google.com
Type your search. I used this search: NAIA “Division (2|II)” “Men’s” basketball “Mid?America”
Scroll down the bottom of the page. The last two links are actually RSS feeds. Click on the “Add a custom section to your Google Home Page”
I chose Google Reader, because that’s where I read everthing. You can copy and paste this feed into whatever reader you want.
Now you have a custom news feed.
Slick, huh?
Spriglet #1: Strategic cereal divots prevent milk overspray
I’m busting out a new category. Spriglets. That’s right.
What is a spriglet you ask?
Well, Solomon has his book Proverbs. I have Spriglets — nuggets of wisdom from yours truly.
Spriglet #1: Strategic cereal divots prevent milk overspray. Simply use your finger and make a divot in the middle of your cereal. Aim for the divot when pouring your milk. Voila! No mess.
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