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Bah, grr and buggeration. In a momentary brain fade I’ve managed to delete the Google account associated with my Feedburner feed and can no longer access it.

However every cloud has a silver lining, and this error presents me with an opportunity to move more of my data back into my control; something I’ve been doing of late. I love “the cloud” don’t get me wrong, but I have had a few occasions recently when the cloud has been unavailable, and so therefore has my data.

Anyway the upshot of all this is that my RSS feed is now: http://www.davidhughes.org/feed.

I assume the Feedburner feed will continue to work but, in case it doesn’t those of you consuming this site via the wonder of RSS should probably update your feed reader of choice.

Jon Hicks has just launched Helvetireader a wonderfully minimalist yet superbly usable theme for Google Reader.

I’ve used Google Reader as my RSS application of choice despite it’s rather cluttered and ugly interface; I mean what is it with Google and pale blue?

Anyway, I’ve tried the Better GReader plug-in and a few other themes but none really worked for me; that is until now.

Helvetireader is frankly beautiful. It makes the news articles the focus of its design and removes all of the cruft and extraneous clutter that the Google Engineers have added.

Jon says

I was going for minimal, inspired partly by Times, a newspaper style RSS reader, and the postcards that came with the (Deluxe!) Helvetica Film DVD.

And he has succeeded wonderfully; although I now wish I’d bought the Deluxe version of Helvetica.

If you use Google Reader you can get Helvetireader here and I strongly recommend you do.