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Matching Science to Sci-Fi: Where’s a Good Tool?

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One way to envision dark matter; sci fi stories are another.

This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but I’m a major science fiction junkie. I always have been. Forget space operas and epic Arthurian fantasies cloaked in spacesuits — I want the hardcore sci-fi. Where the science or speculative reality [...]

Getting my full-text feed back, I hope…

Katie Tegtmeyer, via Flickr (CC license)

Fingers crossed! OK, these aren’t my fingers, but still…

As I looked into this vexing problem further, I remembered that Wordpress generates several feed URLs for any blog. I had been pointing this version, contentious.com/wp-rss.php, to Feedburner — and for some reason that version is truncated.
I just realized that when I [...]

Help! I can’t get my feed back to full text!

I’m getting rather frustrated, here…

(UPDATE: I think I fixed the problem.)
OK, I need some help here. Somehow my feed for this blog reverted from full text to an ultra-short summary. It had been working fine, but then it got screwy. I’m pretty frustrated, and I’ve reached the limit of what I can do to diagnose [...]

Yes, I know my feed reverted to summary

Just a quick note, since a couple of folks have asked. Sometime late last week the feed for this blog, which had been full-text, has reverted to a short summary. I’m not sure why. I probably screwed something up when messing with WordPress an/or Feedburner. I don’t have time today to figure it out, but [...]