Assorted Movable Type notes

First, I just modified my RSS 1.0 (RDF) and RSS 2.0 (XML) feeds so that they contain the full X/HTML content of the post. It bugged me that when I looked at geekable.com's entries in NetNewsWire, all the blockquoting and emphasized text was gone, and all I saw was a big blob of text. Now it looks a lot nicer. Note that I did not modify the Atom feed, but that's because when I made a similar modification, the feed refused to validate. I suppose I'll spend more energy on that problem when I have a feed reader that understands Atom. :)

Secondly, a product recommendation. I recently considered what would happen if, heaven forbid, my web host suffered a freak catastrophic hardware failure. Since the MySQL database that feeds this site would be gone, I'd lose all the entries I've posted. I found a solution to this problem in CocoaMySQL. It's an open-source Mac OS X client for MySQL, and it allows me to back up my entire MySQL database remotely in less than 30 seconds. It dumps all the contents into an SQL file on my machine, which provides peace of mind. (FYI: I use Transmit to back up the images and other data that's not managed by Movable Type.)