Some of the following may be of interest to non-subscribers, too:In the good old days, before Blogger made labels available, I posted hundreds of unclassified items. Now whenever I introduce a new label, I apply it to as many old posts as appropriate, in order to include the old material in the label scheme, along with the newer stuff. FeedBurner doesn't understand me well enough to know that this is what I am doing, and whenever I put a new label on an old post, it tags that post as newly-published and sends out a link to it in the daily feed. So this is why you are seeing links to old articles as well as new ones, not every day but sometimes.
I would hope you would find these old links helpful in providing more background, and if they're not extremely helpful then I hope they're not extremely annoying. You can take some comfort in the thought that someday, eventually, I will have all the labels in place that I need, and I'll be able to stop adding new labels to old posts.
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In other words, when there are errors in the daily feed they are mine alone.
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