If you've been using RSS for Charity, then you might experience a disruption of service over the next couple days.

I've been occupied with getting my east coast life started, and I seem to have missed the news that Amazon is phasing out some older portions of its web services offerings.

I don't know yet if RSS4C is running against the bits that are being removed, and I don't have time right now to figure it out, so I guess we'll all learn together on the 16th.

If it turns out that the API I've coded against is getting ousted, then it's possible that I might decommission RSS4C. It was a fun experiment, but it doesn't bring in much dough considering the work that went into it (although many of you have kicked ass in making sure that it generated something).

Plus, I don't think RSS is a good format for shopping. I've done a lot of thinking about it, and, as fun as it was to create, it just isn't as useful as it could have been.

Anyway, I have other plans for charity. Now I just need time...

By the way, if I haven't already linked to my girlfriend tonight just because I miss her, now would be a good time.