Fr.   Un blog complètement gluxène.

• Assume you are subscribing to feeds a and b in Google Reader.
• Assume unread item A from feed a is linking to unread item B from feed b.
• Assume you click item A.
• The expected output should be one page opened in your default browser, and one unread item removed from your Google Reader environment.
• The correct output should be, in my opinion, zero page opened in your default browser, and two unread items removed from your Google Reader environment.

I therefore suggest making links captive in RSS readers, that is, sending you to the default browser if and only if the target is outside of your range of subscriptions.

The benefits would be that RSS readers would come closer to representing small ecosystems of links and authors, within which you would spend more time shifting between feeds and less time going through stacks of ‘unreads.’ Staying within the ecosystem also makes sense if you are using reader-acquired functions such as sharing, starring or emailing.

The absolutely pointless formalization is that you read R = A(a) + B(b) = 2 by coding unread items (A(a), B(b), … N(n)) = 1, and you get R’ = B(b)* – A(a) = 0 if you remove the unread item A(a) = 1 and code the opened browser page B(b)* = 1. I want my RSS reader to output R’ = -R = -2, because I like the idea of having an R + R’ = 0 equilibrium in my reader’s ecosystem.

Push it to the limits, and you should get within-feed links A(a) + B(a) to work as full-fledged self-references, that is, your reader should send you not to a web page, but to the linked feed item. But I am not pushing it so far as to write it as a utility function.

I expect every single technological innovation to bring me two things:

1. Tinkering.
2. Coffee.

As of today, the contract is incomplete, and I am not signing until the options change.

(sinon elle n’est rien)

Soundtracks+Bach.

• Overnight — Gonzales, Solo Piano (2004).

  Touch of Satie. Love, L*.

• I Want to be a Good Guy — Chan Kwong Wing, Infernal Affairs (2002).

  The film itself is absolutely brilliant.

• (Prelude to) Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010 — Mstislav Rostropovich.

• The Wasteland Massacre and the Reminiscence of Geisha — Suzuki Keiichi, Zatoichi (2003).

  The film itself is a masterpiece of contained violence and ridiculous excess of dancing and forced smiling.

• Love Remembered — Wojciech Kilar, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).

• El Que Se Tenga Por Grande — Talegón de Córdoba & Jorge Rodriguez Padilla, The Limits of Control (2009).

  The film has received mixed reviews. I enjoyed the deadpan atmosphere and Jarmusch clinical touch—flesh and fire brought to mere script, and, perhaps, unintended.

• Ice Dance, Edward Scissorhands (1990).

  It came as the most pleasant surprise that two hearts sent me that track at the same time.