a view from afar

Since Google bought FeedBurner, their MyBrand feature has been free. This means you can access FeedBurner feeds via "feeds.yourdomain.com". All it takes is a CNAME record in DNS to point feeds.yourdomain.com to feeds.feedburner.com, then you can access FeedBurned feeds via a URL you own. It's pretty generous of Google seeing as it means you can switch feed tracker with a simple DNS change...

Here is my Apache config (with added line breaks) to send the Mephisto-generated URLs to the FeedBurner ones:

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
    RewriteRule ^/feed/atom.xml \
                http://feeds.aviewfromafar.net/aviewfromafar-home \
                [R=301]

Actually the feeds.feedburner.com addresses haven't moved, so if you are subscribed to this blog via the Atom feed you will still get updates. But the correct address is here:

http://feeds.aviewfromafar.net/aviewfromafar-home

...and geeks like being correct, right? :D

...Mephisto. This is my folksr.de vote for the poll What is your favourite blogging engine or site?.

In a mission to get Sven Fuch's Mephisto plugin Tag Cloud working, I decided to upgrate to Mephisto-trunk (revision 3005). Ultimately it was successful (this blog is now being served by the Mephisto-trunk), but here are some things you should know...

I assumed this would be really obvious but I had to scour the internet to find instructions.

I wanted to use the included server side highlighting, as described on the Mephisto wiki. It turns out, though, that the correct tag is "filter:code", eg: