If you have ever ran your RSS feed through a feed validator and received the message: “Self reference doesn’t match document location” and have no idea what that means, I may have a few tips for you.
While this is just a recommendation and not an error, it could still cause you problems depending on how you’re using your feed. I host my RSS feed on my own site, run it through FeedBurner and then distribute the feed to different sites for distribution. One of those places has been having problems with my feed lately and I’ve had this recommendation showing up after trying to validate it through http://feedvalidator.org.
I didn’t think it was worth worrying about, but I recently fixed it just to make sure it wasn’t causing any problems. It took me a while to figure it out, but it’s basically a self-referencing link. If for any reason the URL of your feed does not exactly match this, you’ll get the “recommendation” message.
The first thing to check is to make sure that link is the URL people use for your feed. If you’re doing fancy HTTP or .htaccess redirects, you should be giving people the destination URL, not the one that redirects them to something else.
The next thing to check for are spaces in your URL. Even though some operating systems allow spaces in file names, it’s a general practice to try and avoid them. Try using dashes or hyphens.
The last thing to remember is your links are case-sensitive. If you’re sending someone to http://mysite.com/feed but your RSS feed references itself as http://mysite.com/Feed, you’re going to get the “error” message when you try to validate your RSS feed. The hard part can be tracking down where this is set, depending on how your feed is created and how you’re manipulating it.
I hope these few tips can help you out. Generally it’s hard to find any help when looking around for an answer to a question like this.
Tonight I was feeling like some vegetables, which isn’t too uncommon, and decided on potatoes. If you love baked potatoes but don’t have the patience to wait for your oven to pre-heat and cook your tuber, you should try microwaving it. After cleaning and poking your potato(s) with holes, microwave it for about 5 minutes. If you’re worried about it drying out, just wrap it in a paper towel immediately after cleaning/rinsing. After microwaving, wrap the potato in foil and it’ll cook itself.
Afterwards I like to mash/spread my potatoes on a plate and pile on the goodies. Today I went with butter, garlic, oregano, chives, pepper,sour cream, cooked carrots and peas, and ketchup on top. Delicious. I was going to take a picture but accidentally ate it all.
I’ve been hearing that will all the layoffs and job troubles, many newspapers are scrapping their film reviewers. Do you still have a local film critic where you live? Here’s a site that is being continually updated with the last full time film reviewers left.
I most definitely have a soft spot in my heart and stomach for grilled cheese. Many can also attest to my unusual choices for making these delectable sandwiches with specific bread, meat, vegetable and cheese combinations. I’m interested in seeing what kind of grilled cheese recipes will be posted.
Here’s a trailer for a new film called Cherrybomb starring Rupert Grint (Ron Weasely from the Harry Potter series). It looks like it could be cool, almost like an updated Trainspotting with younger characters. I’m definitely interested in seeing this when it comes out.
I have a Joomla 1.0 site and use mojoBlog. It’s been working out pretty well with the exception of SEF URLs and searching. I know this is because mojoBlog is a component and isn’t well developed yet. The SEF issue isn’t that big of a deal because Google still crawls the pages and people can find what I post. The searching has been a little weird.
I really like the included Joomla search module. It’s works great but I just realized it doesn’t return results for any of my blog posts. I had tried setting up Google search before, but it didn’t work too well. I then tried to set it up again today and was still having problems with it finding my blog posts. The weird thing is that if I do a normal Google search, go to the advanced options and search just my site, I can find blog posts.
I took the searchbox code Google provided and popped it into a module and created a static page for the search results. I also popped the provided search results code onto the static page. When I do a search with the module it goes to the static page, but doesn’t show any results, it just shows an empty search bar. Then when I type my search into the search bar on the static page, no results for blog posts.
Am I doing something wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The Criterion Collection has always been known for it’s collection of classic, timeless films. The films that persist and stick around for generations. In fact, there are only a dozen or so film from the last decade and two of them happen to be by Wes Anderson.
In an unprecedented move, the Criterion people have decided to add a film to it’s collection from 2008. Usually it takes a while to get in. Can you guess what made it? No, not Dark Knight, Milk, The Wrestler or Slumdog Millionaire. Give up? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Now I know that Armageddon is on the Criterion list. So maybe this just follows suit. The aging and the time stuff was kind of cool, but other then that it was just ok. Thoughts on this? Am I coming off all High Fidelity elite?
If you enjoy what Jim Jarmusch has made, particularly Ghost Dog, you might want to check out his upcoming film The Limits of Control. Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Tilda Swinton (who really looks like Angelica Huston in the trailer), John Hurt and Bill Murray - this film looks promising.
Getting ready to make some enchiladas. They’re pretty labor-intensive, but not nearly as bad as making tamales by yourself. I don’t think I’ve made any enchiladas since before I got sick all the time. That was about 2005 or 2006. Luckily I’m my lungs are so much better now than they have been. It’s been way too long. Liz has asked me to please not make them hot so she can actually eat some. I might make two batches of sauce. We’ll see how things work out.
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