Broken TeraGrid RSS News Feeds

[Nagger's Update: the titles were fixed after I posted this. Hopefully reordering will be soon to follow.]

If you have a TeraGrid account, you probably have noticed the 6.02(10)^23 emails you get every day (Ranger is up! Ranger is down...). You can disable all of these by going to 'http://news.teragrid.org/subscribe-db.php. Even better, you can subscribe instead to RSS feeds and get these updates in a sensible fashion.

There are only two problems: the title fields in the feeds are broken and most of the feeds are in newest-entry-last order. The iGoogle RSS reader (for one) assumes that the first entry is the newest (not the oldest) entry.

Here is an example (to pick on the home team): http://news.teragrid.org/feeds/rss-indiana.rss I did notice that TACC had at least fixed their ordering, but most of the other centers have the same problem.

I reported these errors to the help desk like a good soldier, got my trouble ticket, and then...nothing. After a couple of weeks through some back channel emails, I found out that my ticket had been received and that they would fix it within the the year. I am not making this up. No one is willing to take five minutes to fix this simple problem. Probably they don't have any time left after all the meetings.