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Huge buzz on the web today about D-Wave:

• The Techworld article that started it all: "Quantum computer to debut next week"
• The Slashdot post that followed
• Guardian Unlimited's "Computers are about to take a quantum leap into the future" and hit digg's home page.
• This blog post on engadget.com: "Quantum computer to debut next Tuesday?" was dugg and also hit digg's home page.

Here's my original post about our upcoming demo.

I found a really neat site that can generate custom feeds. I really wanted a way to not only get a feed of the most popular articles today on digg, but also have links directly to the dugg article, not to the digg page (sorry digg).

This site called RSSxl Beta could do it. I entered:

• Page URL: http://www.digg.com/view/all/popular/today
• Start String: <div class="news-body">
• Start Item String: <h3 id="title.*?">
• End Item String: <div class="news-details">
• Start Description String: <p>
• End Description String: </p>
• Link Number: 1

I found a secret Digg feed today. I have been looking for a while for a way to get a feed for the "Top Today" page because the regular digg feed has too many articles. It turns out it does exist although it doesn't seem to be advertised anywhere on digg's site. Here is is: http://digg.com/rss/toplinks.xml.

I can't seem to get Digg.com's "blog this" feature to work with my Drupal blog. I was able to get it to work at one point but it is really inconsistent and unrepeatable. One of the main issues I have been having is with my username having a space in it (it was "David Grant" before). Now I have changed it to "David Grant" to remove any possibility of that being a problem. I keep getting this stupid error: "You either tried to edit somebody else's blog or you don't have permission to edit your own blog." But I did have it working with these same settings before.