Thursday, March 28, 2002


I am taking off for Spring Break to spend some time with my kids. I will be at home and will be doing some blogging from there. I will probably get my home-based Instant Outliner set up tomorrow. Next week we are off to beautiful Minneapolis. My 14 year old daughter has a deep desire to go see the Mall of America. I sure hope they have lots of bookstores (and maybe a Wizards of the Coast)!
5:33:55 PM    Google It!  

Referencing my last post, it appears this does work. It just didn't work on my machine at the point in time I created that post. I have since refreshed my Radio Outliner code, shut down and restarted Radio and found myself unable to reproduce the problem. It is cool to be able to reference an OPML on another website, double-click it, and see the outline open in place within my own outline. You can do this too, just right-click a node in your outline (any outline), enter the URL of an OPML document (you must include the .opml extension). Now you should be able to 2-click the node and see an inline expansion.
1:40:13 PM    Google It!  

It seems like sometime in the real recent past that if you linked in OPML file from an outline, then double-clicking it would expand the outline in place. Now it treats the link like a URL, opening a browser window to the OPML document. I want to get back to the old behavior. I wonder if I can do so by changing the nodeType attribute to "buddyElement" rather than "link"? I want to play around with this later.
12:29:18 PM    Google It!  

I subscribed to Bull Mancuso last night. I guess I was not in on the joke; the Bull Mancuso outline is authored by Dave Winer. At any rate, that left me with two different buddies named Dave Winer. I ammended that this morning. Here's how:
  • Open user.radio.outliner
  • Examine the subscriptions and change the desired author element
  • Delete the user.radio.outliner.buddies outline
  • Select Radio/Outliner/Open Buddy List menu (which will rebuild user.radio.buddies according to the subscription info)
Now I have Dave Winer as a buddy separate from Bull Mancuso
12:26:42 PM    Google It!