My last ride was on Sept 24. That was 15 days ago. Two weeks. And today I got back on the bike and took a slow ride down to the Battery, looked at the Statue of Liberty, turned around and came back.

A beautiful Saturday afternoon. Warm, in the low 70s. And every sidewalk stroller with a baby carriage was out, walking four-across. Oblivious to the wheeled traffic all around them. Numerous near-hits. Riding on-edge most of the time.

And the body aches. But it works. It was not agony and at times it was very satisfying. To have overcome the calamity and risen back on wheels, ready to climb the next hill!

The map. 4.93 miles in 39 minutes. Like I said, a slowwww ride.

 10/9/2010; 4:22:21 PM.   .

This FeedHose thing is starting to get interesting!

1. There's a new page that shows the 3 most recent items to flow through the hose for the NYT.

http://hose.scripting.com/recent

2. You can change the number of items if you like. Max is 15.

http://hose.scripting.com/recent?count=5

3. You can get the most recent items in JSON.

http://hose.scripting.com/recent?format=json

It's worth pausing here. Look carefully. That's RSS data in JSON format. (I was not the first to do this, thankfully, I had prior art to look at. And a very nice validator to work with as well.)

4. You can also get the long-poll version in JSON, though it's harder to demo. You should call this from a loop in a script to test, or from a browser-based AJAX app. The call below will timeout after 3 seconds. The default is 180.

http://hose.scripting.com/?format=json&timeout=3

5. The seed page is also available in JSON. (I've got a general-purpose JSONizer inside the app.)

http://hose.scripting.com/seed?format=JSON

6. To celebrate all this neat jsonish hoseyness, I bought a cool domain to tie it all together (haven't started that part yet).

http://feedho.se/

The open web is great, out here in wild.

Still diggin!

 10/9/2010; 11:35:21 AM.   .