Friday, July 12, 2002

I'm ba-ack... Re-installed Radio on my new install of OS X and got myself pointed back to Userland's community server. Some random bits look broken but this may be stuff that was broken before. From the perspective of more months, it's really that i just don't want to learn Radio. I mean i'm sure i'll get sucked into it somewhere along the line as i help people out with the evolving new era of communications, but my heart is in wiki and free software, and that's just not exactly where Radio is (though it's oddly close). So i'm not sure what i'll do with this site. I would like to try the instant outlining (now that i'm back in the U.S.), i guess i'll do that some time, and otherwise let things steep... Otherwise, it's AbbeNormal for now. Glad Dave is still with us, this Radio story definitely doesn't seem over yet... 6:06:37 AM comment(s)

Sunday, April 7, 2002

Mostly been posting to AbbeNormal:AbbeNormal lately. I would like to play with Radio's new Instant Outlining, etc., but i'm stuck behind a proxy server at the ISP i'm hooking my laptop up to, so it'll probably wait until May. (Nothing is upstreaming. I've updated Radio's root, but get this error when trying to subscribe to an Instant Outline: Can't serve /system/pages/outlinerSubscribe because the file wasn't found. I'm also getting a loop in Radio repeatedly receving 1K from 127.0.0.1. Not sure what that is, but things definitely seem broken. My troubles may be related to an earlier problem that i probably need to reinstall Radio to fix, but everything -- except Instant Outlining, which just wasn't out yet -- was working when last i dialed up to my account from California.) Meanwhile, my trial period for Tinderbox has expired. Phtheeah! Multitasking Lanka and technology exploration presents challenges. They're exactly the ones i want to overcome, as i would like to make some sort of tech contributions while i'm here. It's as much to do with my attention as anything else, but some local geeks to commune with would be helpful too. Anyone know of Lankans who are into technology, and will be around Colombo at the end of April, early May? 6:22:48 PM comment(s)

Sunday, March 10, 2002

Not too surprisingly, nothing showed up on my cloud site at first. Oddly, this post didn't trigger it, but manually publishing from Radio did it. Five new categories suddenly appeared -- My Friends, My Hobbies, My Interests, My Organization, My Profession. Hm, does Radio Community Server come with a discussion group for us? Yo, Dave Berry, i'm here mainly to help you test this out, so let me know if there's anything i can do. ---- Hey, does this mean my old site is gone? or will it just not update? (the latter) 9:27:32 PM comment(s)

Monday, February 18, 2002

Dave points to a How to install RadioUserLand for non-techies. 10:05:16 AM comment(s)

Sunday, February 17, 2002

In the "RadioSandBox" i try to figure out new features. 3:28:07 PM comment(s)

Thursday, February 14, 2002

Bill Bumgarner has a RadioServices for OS X FAQ, and reports no big problems yet. It lets AbbeNormal:MacOsx users type one key combination (shift-command-R) to put any selected text into a ready-to-blog text box. Only Cocoa applications, mostly(?). 2:11:50 AM comment(s)

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

From details of a global brain i find out about a new Mac OS X Radio service by Bill Bumgarner. 9:28:01 PM comment(s)

Joe has produced a theme with no tables (it also has no calendar) that should please "CSS" fans. Geez, read that out loud and tell me we're not all just geeking out here! 7:42:23 PM comment(s)

ViewFromTheHeart has (i want the links here): garret has these printed out and at hand for doing work in Radio. Good summary , and I think I'll put together something... Also, he has a set of "skeletons" with the 'required' macros for each page as starters. Good hint, and thanks, g. Required Macros How to include images in your templates CSS class names for calendar and tables Built-in Macros 7:09:24 PM comment(s)

Monday, February 11, 2002

RadZilla is a Mozilla sidebar with handy links for Radio, from Radio X Neophyte. Got the link from View from the Heart. David Davies is filtering RSS feeds. 8:55:46 PM comment(s)

Sunday, February 10, 2002

Stay tuned for a forthcoming story or two... 8:28:30 PM comment(s)

Saturday, February 9, 2002

As you probably haven't noticed (i dont think anyone really reads here), i haven't posted in a few days. I think things are at the point where i've decided (as i expected) not to suddenly switch to a new weblogging system at this point. The main reasons are speed, lack of wikiness, less preferable license and language. That said, Radio is kinda neat, and i'm sure that more features will come along that will be tempting. I paid my $40 to express that there were things i liked, and i'll probably try to come up with some way to make use of it that wouldn't detract from AbbeNormal. If i could post multiple items at once from the RSS reader, i could use it just to store items that i found of some interest (but not enough to follow up on immediately) in different categories, that would be useful. If people could subscribe to my feeds by e-mail that would actually solve one of my problems. I am researching this sort of thing and will post about it to AbbeNormal. 8:51:20 PM comment(s)