This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
24 Oct 2004
Perusing my Bloglines subscriptions early this morning, I discovered that the Industry Standard feed apparently had more than 4 trillion billion unread items. I don’t have that sort of time.
I clicked the feed, fully expecting the resulting enormous page to eat up all my RAM and force a reboot. But instead I was greeted with the information that there were no items left to be read in that feed. Apparently some sort of temporary Bloglines meltdown.
I had something like that happen with the Movable Type news blog once, although I think in that case it did try to load all of those entries.
Actually, I think Tony stills says that. No, you’re right. I saw a commercial the other day with a “We are the Champions” ripoff. “Mighty, mighty tigers” or something like that.
Same thing happened here (different feed, similar large number, same actual number (0) of unread items.)
Odd.
That number above is only 4.2 billion…still a BIG number, though.
Clearly a bug, that number is only 1224 short from 2^32 (4.294.967.296), which is the maximum value for an unsigned 32 bit number. Something did x = -1224 and then displayed its unsigned equalient.
And I thought I was lazy, the highest any of my unread feeds have ever gone is 200.
@Jeramy Jannene: 200 is the maximum amount of posts Bloglines will retain for you. Per feed, that is.
Ah, thanks Roel.
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Ted Hussey
October 24, 2004 6:12 AM
Yaaaa! I’m the first! Your blog is one of the ones I read on a daily basis. It’s always filled with good stuff. I’ve used some of your plugings on my blog. Like Tony used to say… “They’re GGGGGGGGREAT! Thanks, Ted