Toms View of the World

Final the news media (notably, the Financial Times) has figured out that the effects of extortionate prices for fuel has a knock-on effect to everything else.

If the Government wants to keep inflation under control, it’s got to do something about the spiralling costs of fuel, which are impacting everything used to calculate “inflation” (which does not include the price at the pumps of Unleaded and Diesel) - but those massive 10%+ increases in fuel in the last few weeks will start affecting everything that has to be transported as part of it’s manufacturing or distribution to customers.

If you’re anything like me, you use RSS feeds for keeping track of updates to your favourite websites…

If you’re anything like me, it bugs you when a regularly updated site doesn’t include RSS feeds (e.g. the “news” pages for the Coppermine Gallery script - advising of new releases)

Now there’s a service to help - Feed43 - simply put, it’s a service which extracts text from a web-page and outputs it as an RSS feed.

A word of warning, although it’s very powerful, it requires some knowledge of HTML, and of course, it’s vital to read the instructions - however it’s a service I can see having a future…

Oh, for those Coppermine users - here’s the feed…