In other news, I'm sick of fucking around trying to coax bloglines into reading my properly formatted RSS file and just downloaded a freeware RSS Reader. It's probably some pain in the ass caching thing. If I rename the file and subscribe to it through bloglines, I see all the entries. But for some reason bloglines keeps holding onto the old, empty version of grendel_data.xml.

Supposedly, feeds are updated hourly, but from what I could glean from Google it's more like every 48 hours or so. And even then there are some subset of feeds which never get updated after the inital subscription.