I’ll admit that I’ve really started to enjoy the whole RSS capabilities of blogs; I get notified only when a page changes.

But this is a problem for other things… like straight HTML pages that have no RSS capabilities and are only updated very, very infrequently. Pages like some people’s “journals”.

Since I can’t go and fix the problem (no periodic updating notification) and it is too costly in time to check it manually, I use the HTMLtoRSS script to change the HTML into an RSS feed and then subscribe to that feed. Then, if there is a change, I get notified in an asynchronous manner. Yay!

Below is the link to the script. Works with NetNewsWire (Mac only), but uses Ruby and can easily be hacked to work with Linux. Maybe I’ll do that and post the diffs.

HTMLtoRSS