Blog RSS feed strangeness

If you're a reader of my blog via the RSS feed and use Google Reader, I've noticed it's doing something strange.

There was only one published post yesterday/today before this one and it was titled "BrowserID - The browser as a Federated Identity proxy" and should appear immediately after this in the RSS feed (and obviously on the web).

For some reason, the RSS feed is publishing 2 additional posts that I had in draft and have since deleted:

1. BrowserID - The browser as a Federated Identity proxy (part 1)
2. BrowserID - The browser as a Federated SSO proxy (part 2)

Please ignore them. If you follow the links through, you'll notice the pages don't exist. I've since turned part 1 into the aforementioned "BrowserID - The browser as a Federated Identity proxy" post which was published. If you happened to read what was to be part 2, you've basically been given a preview of a follow up post I'll publish right after this (update: I've since published the follow up post here).

Apologies for the issue. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it. If I had to guess, I'd say there's some Google Reader caching strangeness happening here.

I'm now using Feedburner

You may have noticed I've added a link to the right hand column for a more convenient way to subscribe to this blog's feed (for those without a browser that's capable of automatically detecting the feed URL).

I've done this in conjunction with switching to using Feedburner to serve up the feed. Why did I do this you ask? Because Blogger doesn't bother giving feed stats so I have absolutely no idea how my feed is being utilised...or even if I have anyone subscribing to my feeds (You guys at Google/Blogger listening?!) I considered migrating my blog to Wordpress because they have feed stats, but that was just too much trouble.

I happen to know there are a few of you out there currently subscribing to my Blogger feed, but only because you told me. Otherwise, I would be none the wiser and still be thinking that no one reads this. Your current feeds should still work because Blogger doesn't cut off its default feeds simply because I've changed all my internal page links and meta data to point at my new feed. But it would be great if you could do me a favour and start using the new feed by clicking here. Thanks!