Moving I've just transfered Radio Userland onto my mew TiBook. This is a test to see whether I've done it successfully. I think I'll continue to use Radio to update ODB, which is a Manila site.  9:01:13 AM    

DecidingBetter.com

Now that Google is indexing DecidingBetter.com, I've moved my personal journal there. I  use Bloxsom to render pages. I never really felt at home using Radio 8 for the journal.

1. Speed. Things bog down compared to working locally. Even working locally, some operations where the browser talks to the app take a long time on a fast machine. I'm used to using Radio with Manila for On Deciding Better where I write in the Radio outline then send it up to the server while I do other things.

2. WYSIWYG. It works within the browser on the Windows machine, not on the Mac. But I base Radio on the Mac. So on the Mac I use BBEdit. Or fool with vim in the Unix layer. With Blosxom, I just stay in text all the time.

3. Remote entry. RU is designed for a single user on a single computer. To use it remotely, I need to have the app running. My Cube is a multiuser machine, so I can't keep the app running.

4. Subscription. I'm thinking that my first year is up. When I paid the first $40, I got Radio 8 and 40 mb of disk. Now I'll pay the same just for the disk space as there have been no updates I've noticed in the past year. I get to keep the app without paying. It seems better to use all the disk space I have (including running an Apache server from home).

I will probably keep the associated sites here up (Newfoundland, etc), but may need to store them elsewhere, using radio's ftp capacity

  7:36:13 AM    

Changing the Index This O'Reilly series has been a great resource for me as I work to get my G4 Cube to sever ODBlog. http://www.decidingbetter.com now loads ODBlosxom as the index.  10:17:06 PM    

ODBlosxom I've been working on getting my G4 Cube to serve the Blosxom site as the index page for decidingbetter.com with no success. This is a problem with using a cgi interface to serve the homepage. A static rendered Blosxom looks like its in the works, so I may have to wait.  11:47:00 PM    

DecidingBetter.com This has been on the to do list for a long time. I've registered the domain decidingbetter.com and have it pointed at my G4 cube at home over the DSL line. It's propagating over the DNS network, so it may not be reachable from everywhere for a few days, but after registering last night, my work computer can see it.  11:28:49 AM    

Biotech meets home computing

CUPERTINO--With its customary flair for the dramatic, Apple computer announced Wednesday the back-to-school availability of the 'PiggyMac,' a bioengineered Macintosh computer embedded in a living, breathing piglet.

I've always thought that there was probably more medical progress to be made in devices than in biotech. Our materials and control technology is too primative. But I never expected that biotech would turn out to such a productive way to build household devices.

It's natural though. Energy use, reproduction, self repair have all been optimized by evolution. We should take advantage of it.

  5:42:48 PM    

I've been posting to ODBlosxom pretty regularly. I've added a link on this page. I enjoy the rapid cycling between BBEdit (or vi) editing and the page appearance. The click and wait that I live with when I use the Userland tools is not missed.  11:14:13 PM    

Mac OS X cited as Linux competitor in new review [MacCentral]

The circle is unbroken. The DOS-heads ranted about how the CLI was superior to the Mac GUI. With Windows, everyone uses a GUI. Mac-heads made fun of the fact that Windows was layered on top of DOS.

Unix users and Mac power users now embrace the CLI once more. And rave about the GUIs that sit on top of the stable Unix OS. Which of course existed before the Mac or DOS.

  9:07:02 PM