This post mentions Earthlink's new RSS news reader says "Until yesterday these were the only aggregators that worked this way." Well, that too is not quite correct. Drupal has for at least a few years included an aggregrator that works in the River of News format. Granted that Drupal's aggregrator doesn't have some of the other features for easily marking posts as read, but it's been doing river of news for a long time.

The American Legion Nevada Boys' State website has undergone a major revision. It was the last of the sites I manage to get the Drupal 4.7 upgrade. In addition this morning it got the wonderful CiviCRM. Still working through getting all the data moved into the new system and getting the legislature section of the website ready for the 60th legislative session of American Legion Nevada Boys' State.

One of those small icons at the bottom of a web page on my morning commute through the web had a link to Performancing's website. The company puts out some interesting tools. Publish is the tool for blogging in Firefox. Dubbed the "full featured FREE Blog Editor" it lives up to its claim. While browsing through the web a press of the F8 key brings up a blog editor on the bottom half of the screen. It works well. There are some things that remain to be worked out like it doesn't support free tagging in Drupal and in the list of blog names blogs are listed by the user name - which doesn't work well for those of us who commonly use the same user name on different blogs. The big downside (and may be a deal killer for now) is the lack of spell checking.Performancing also has a metrics package that is interesting. After some more testing I'll have a post on that as well..

I've worked recently on a port of the Grass Stains theme for Drupal 4.7. Though it is not quite perfect it seems to work well for most things and I don't have the time at the moment to track down the last few glitches. If anybody is inclined to pick it up and add anything more please do so. If not it will likely stay as-is for a while.