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Mostly been posting to 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?

Test post to see if bugs are getting fixed...

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)

Dave points to a How to install RadioUserLand for non-techies.

In the "RadioSandBox" i try to figure out new features.

The Sri Lankan government has opened access on A9 -- the parts under their control. A9 is the main highway between the south and Jaffna, and the government and LTTE had fought bitterly to control it in recent years. Supplies will travel more freely to the embargoed Tamil areas than they have in many years. The rebels seem likely to reciprocate by opening up their part of the highway. Just keep knocking on wood...

So now with Radio Services, i can blog every idle thought so easily there's not enough time to wonder whether it was a good idea :). Too bad no Plokta, couldn't get the JavaScriptRssViewer to work. Which is weird, 'cause it does in the sidebar over to your right.

Does Radio Services work? Yes! You get Plokta:

Bill Bumgarner has a RadioServices for OS X FAQ, and reports no big problems yet. It lets 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(?).

From details of a global brain i find out about a new Mac OS X Radio service by Bill Bumgarner.

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!

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

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.

Stay tuned for a forthcoming story or two...

shakeitbabe -- is it web art? You decide.

That'll teach me to visually inspect my URLs. I had it as a Daypop redirect URL at first.