Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:13:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Last night, I was wondering why nothing new was showing up for a > particular podcast that I like to listen to. > > Hidden in a corner was a tiny light grey icon, which on clicking it told > me that it had stopped retrieving updates because I hadn't listened to > anything for ages. > > OF COURSE I HADN'T LISTENED! THERE WEREN'T ANY UPDATES FOR THREE > MONTHS! > > But now, 4 months after the last time I listened, there are updates, > which it hadn't bothered to pick up. And because the RSS feed in > question only has one item in it at a time, I missed two of them. > > Grrrr > > Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this wonderful > feature.
Grr, indeed. I have been mulling over a rant about that for some time, but now I need not write it. Thanks, and let's see if we can find a way to disable it. :-) -- Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com> "Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do." -- Ted Nelson
