A few weeks ago, I was configuring my blog reader — I use Google Reader — and for some reason that I couldn’t quite explain, I added my own blog to the feed. It felt kind of odd, somewhat narcissistic actually, and really my only excuse was that I would now have a way of confirming that my site’s RSS feed was working correctly.
Fast forward to today. Some unexplained Wordpress gremlins started wreaking havoc in my blog; several recent posts disappeared — including one I’m submitting to the next Carnival of Real Estate (being hosted by True Gotham.)
I do back up my blog fairly regularly, but I hadn’t done so recently enough to be able to recover these entries. They were too fresh to have already made it to Google’s cache. A quick look at the Wordpress forums revealed a suggestion by a gentleman named Cornell Finch, who had this to say about deleted posts:
I’m sorry, it’s gone.
Unless you (like me) are sad enough to subscribe to your own RSS Feed. If that’s the case you could recreate the post.
Bingo! There it was in my Google Reader feed.
Thanks Cornell!
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�Good news, your equity line and business line of credit rates remain the same as yesterday, as the Fed held short-term rates steady today. Why? Because despite unemployment concerns, the economy is doing fine (1.4% growth year to date-- thank you exports!), core inflation is under control at this point, gas prices have dropped over 6% recently and it's more prudent to maintain a steady helm when the economy appears relatively balanced. Eric T. Trailer, Principal
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1 Athol Kay // Nov 10, 2006 at 8:37 am
I check on my own RSS too. That way you know it’s going out, and you get to see how the feed looks in the reader to other people.
And in the “nothing succeeds like success” department, it buffs out my “Readers by Feedburner” chicket number by 1.
2 erin // Nov 13, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Thanks for the idea — it hadn’t occured to me before to subscribe to my own RSS feed, but obviously it can be a “lifesaver”.
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