Being offline does give me time to do something I need to do - "spring cleaning" on my feeds. I've crept up over 300 feeds again, and that seems to be my personal overload point. So here I am at 30,000 feet, deleting feeds. I have a pretty simple methodology for this - as a first pass, I just blow away anything that hasn't updated in the last 2 months. I suppose I ought to enable the Bf feature that tracks that and disables feeds in that state, but there it is :)

Of course, I ddidn't want to do that by hand, so I wrote a script in the workspace BottomFeeder provides:

| ts |
ts := Timestamp readFrom: ('5/1/05' readStream).
RSSFeedManager default getAllMyFeeds select: 
	[:each | | all  |
	       all := each allItems.
	       first := (all notNil and: [all notEmpty])
	               ifTrue: [all first]
	               ifFalse: [nil].
	       shouldUse := first notNil
	               ifTrue: [first pubDateString < ts]
	               ifFalse: [true].
	       shouldUse]

It's a simple selection script, and it returned an inspector. With that, I could just walk through the list of feeds, and send the appropriate message to the UI when I wanted to delete one. Much nicer than walking through it manually. I suppose I ought to add this sort of "find the unupdated stuff" thing as a standard feed search. The end result? Back down to 286 feeds, which feels much more manageable to me :)