(This came up elsewhere. I remember grinding my teeth about it at the time,
   so I don't know why I didn't put it in the article.)

   As well as having 10 different versions[1], RSS has two competing time
   formats: RSS 0.91/2.0 use RFC 822 (date -R) format, RSS 1.0 uses dc:date,
   which  needs  W3CDTF  (a  subset  of  ISO  8601: date --iso-8601, date
   --iso-8601='minutes', date --iso-8601='seconds')

   Mark Pilgrim has a blog entry that explains a bit of the history behind this
   here:
   [46]http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/06/21/history_of_rss_date_formats

   [1] I said 9 in the article, but RSS 3.0 came afterwards (and, IIRC, is
   nothing like the other 9 RSS formats)
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     * [47]Heather is in England...
     * [48]Heather and Jim taking flight.
     * [49]SVN
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Heather is in England...

   Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:16:10 +0100
   Jimmy O'Regan ([50]The LG Answer Gang)

   ...and so I have the keys to the mailbag this month (errors, etc., are my
   fault). 

   Heather has gotten hold of an English mobile phone, on loan from a friend,
   and is trying to get to grips with both SMS and being a tourist... 

     [Heather] OH BTW, ENGLAND IS NICE!

     [Jimmy] Try to spend as much time as possible being a tourist!

     [Heather] A POOR TOURIST, BUT STILL!

     [Jimmy] Oh heck, all you have to do is photograph everything you see, and
     ask the most obvious questions that come to mind. It's fun, give it a
     whirl.

     [Jimmy] Oh. Can't send you photos.

     [Heather] :) CAPS ARE THE CLUE, THIS PHONE IS PRETTY OLD...

     [Jimmy] Ah. Large and brick-shaped, prompting the question: do I drive
     this?

     [Heather] IF YOU HAVE 2 ASK YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT :-P

   Heather will be back in time for next month's issue. 
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Heather and Jim taking flight.

   Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:54:52 -0700
   Heather Stern ([51]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   We'll be heading off to the UK this weekend. Jim reports that we've been
   signed up for internet access at his hotel assignment, so I'll probably be
   able to send in a blurb, but hopefully I will have enough things to do that
   I won't be lurking in a hotel all that much. 

     [Ben] [smile] Enjoy yourselves and don't let your vacation time be spoiled
     by schedules. If you can get it in without stressing, cool; if not,
     there's always next month.

     [Thomas] Indeed, although I am sure something can be arranged. :)

   My poor mactop decided to have a fit when I tried to make it dual boot. One
   of the LUG locals is a truly guru macintosh fella though, so he's done his
   best to fix it up, and I'll have it back at the installfest. If it's not up
   to speed I'll end up taking terra with me instead... er, as soon as I seal
   her up. those lil bitty screws are kinda necessary after all if you don't
   want  people gettin' weird because your laptop's falling apart. To its
   credit terra's hibernation works perfectly :) 

   Anyways there won't be cover art unless I'm taking the mac. 

   I've crosstrained Ben in using the g2 form of lgazmail to generate tips and
   the mailbag parts, by way of showing him the generation-phase on issue 118's
   data. 

     [Ben] FSVO "trained". :) You certainly gave it your best shot; the rest is
     up to that gadget I carry around between my ears. Don't worry, if it all
     falls down around my ears and everyone hates me and the government sends
     in the black helicopters, I promise to not blame you with my last dying
     breath.

   Of course everyone won't hate you. We've got xteddy in the tag lounge. 

   In short, if ben would like to login to gemini he should be able to play
   virtual Heather this month. Hopefully that should serve in case I happen to
   be truly without 'net. 

     [Ben] Yeesh, options. I feel my brain melting already...