This morning I did what I should have done a long time ago: configure gnus to do all my RSS reading. It took me an hour but it was an hour well spent. Until re

This morning I did what I should have done a long time ago: configure gnus to do all my RSS reading. It took me an hour but it was an hour well spent. Until recently Google Reader was just good enough but with the recent changes, it became just too painful. I'm not talking about the "social" features; I never used them. It was the poor layout and design, wasted real estate and especially the broken key shortcuts that did it. So now Google has lost access to all my RSS habits. It has also been a lesson to me in SaaS solutions (Software as a Service). When the provider can make substantial changes in their service at a whim, they can leave you high and dry. You're no better off than when you put yourself in the hands of a commercial software vendor or, dare I say it, Ubuntu :-) Now happily reading the HN feed and others through gnus...