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I relocated last year. During the process, I tried to add my new mailing address to a banking application, however, I encountered a slight problem: the bank uses a very popular online Maps service to validate addresses and my new address was part of a newly developed neighborhood. No problem, I thought: I’ve been a Maps “local guide” for about a decade, I’ll just add the street myself. The street was even visible in the satellite image, so I just carefully traced the street and submitted the path and name to Maps. It went into the usual pending queue…

From the start, this blog has been intended to be a journal of my hobbies; I’ve never intended to include any posts relating to my profession, politics, family, etc. The one exception that I might make in the future is to include a few posts about my volunteerism, because it’s practically a hobby for me.

Today, though, I’m going to bend the rules a little bit, because I wanted to share a little bit about an experience I had at work.

It’s been a month since I installed Anubis, and I thought I should give a quick update on that “anime cat girl…”

If you're visiting this site on the clear-web, you may have noticed a brief landing page featuring an anime cat girl (well, an anime jackal girl, actually).

That's the mascot of the Anubis project, created by Techaro...

While trying to write the script mentioned in a prior post, I decided that I would use an XML parsing module of some sort rather than writing my own.  A quick google search turned up a number options, but I wasn't quite sure which would be best for my use-case.  I knew that I wanted to specifically read RSS feeds, so using a general purpose XML parser was probably overkill if there was a more RSS-focused option available. I found several RSS-focused modules to choose from, including XML::RSSLite; which sounded promising as a light-weight RSS-specific module.