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Monday, October 17, 2005Elvis Has Left The Building
Let the word go forth to all my Radio weblog category sites. And let the word likewise be cast upon the RSS waters that those both near and far may hear the news.
This incarnation of Redwood Asylum has been retired. But let not the news weigh heavily upon thee. Know ye that nonsense and drivel spring forth anew in these TypePad locations:
- Redwood Asylum: same old stuff with a new RSS feed
- Random Analytics: web analytics and a new RSS feed
Oh, and the Elvis expression?
Thursday, October 13, 2005Upgraded TypePad Trial
Upgraded my TypePad trial account from Basic to Plus.
Spent a lot of time troubleshooting problems with Radio UserLand post exporting. Finally decided the issue was probably not in Bill Kearney's exporter tool, but in the Radio UserLand database.
Deleted several old posts from an unpublished category and deleted the category. Deleted several other old categories which were no longer needed. Ran the TweezerMan script to rebuild internal category story lists. Used the Radio application option to save a new copy of weblogData.root. Shut down Radio, swapped in the new copy of weblogData.root and restarted. Bill Kearney's exporter ran fine, dumping over 1700 posts into a Movable Type format file.
Re-worked the TypePad test site several times, dumping the earlier partial import and loading the full 1700 post file. TypePad isn't nearly as flexible as Movable Type, but I don't think I need extensive customization. However, I do have an account at Total Choice Hosting where I could test Movable Type.
Many have moved to (perceived) greener pastures after Radio UserLand. Will I follow The Shifted Librarian, TweezerMan and Phil Windley to Movable Type? I watched Ernie the Attorney move from Radio to TypePad. If my TypePad testing proceeds without major incident, maybe I'll buy the first year. If I don't like the Project Comet evolution, I can always jump to Movable Type later.
Time will tell.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005TypePad Trial
After three and a half years with Radio UserLand, I'm testing something new. I opened a 30-day free trial TypePad account this evening, starting with the Basic version. Using Google, I located Bill Kearney's exporter tool for Radio UserLand. Although I'm having problems, I was able to export enough Radio posts to test the TypePad import feature. Time will tell.
Thursday, October 07, 2004Radio UserLand 'Slacker Bug' Not Fixed in v8.1
Based on the previous upstreaming test post, I know that the 'one-month slacker' bug was not fixed in Radio UserLand version 8.1.
Q: WTF is the 'one-month slacker' bug?
A: If you write a post, whether to the home page or one of your categories, on a day which is exactly one month after your last post, Radio UserLand gets sick. Although the new post is entered into the database with the correct date, it is rendered to the web site using the date of your month-ago post.
So, all you slackers, don't let the moss grow on your categories or your home page. My test post today (10/7/04) was one month after the last post (9/7/04) in my Items To Review category, triggering the bug. My test post from 10/7 appears on 9/7, along with my 'real' 9/7 post.
This second test post is also going to all categories.
These Are Not The Droids You're Looking For
This is not the post for which you are looking, but will test Radio UserLand upstreaming after the version 8.1 upgrade. This is the first post since returning from Gnomedex 4. Later, I'll test post back-dating (via Mark Paschal's unsupported Radio To The Past) for my Gnomedex comments. This test is posted to all categories.
Sunday, March 28, 2004Weekend Blogger
weekend mode....
[jenett.radio] 
Mac OS X Fragmentation
Notes and Tips: Mac OS X Fragmentation. Here's the official word on Mac OS X file fragmentation from Apple. [MacInTouch] [dws.]
Tuesday, March 23, 2004Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World
Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World. Abstract: Mac Users usually don't use suffixes such as .doc - after all, we've got resource forks! But what to do, if such a file (or thousands!) ends up on a *NIX machine (such as OS X Server!) without that ressource fork? O... [macosxhints] [dws.]
An overview of a generic UNIX filesystem hierarchy
An overview of a generic UNIX filesystem hierarchy. Did you ever wonder what exactly should be in the /usr/bin directory? Or maybe what goes inside the /usr/local/sbin directory? I found a great resource of the standards for UNIX describing all the directories in a basic UNIX ... [macosxhints] [dws.]
Report: Mac OS X 10.3.3
Report: Mac OS X 10.3.3. We've got a ton of advice again today about the Mac OS X 10.3.3 update. [MacInTouch] [dws.]
Saturday, March 06, 2004Mac OS X: Your Mac won't start up
Mac OS X: Your Mac won't start up.
Nothing can be more frustrating than turning on your Mac only to find that it won't start up. Instead of seeing the Finder, you see a blue or gray screen, an icon of a broken folder, a kernel panic, a flashing question mark, or a computer that just sits there. What are you going to do now? A million things could make your Mac act this way. Don't worry. It's usually just a simple issue you can fix yourself. [Apple Computer Top Mac OS X Documents]
[A Father and his two girls] [dws.]
Wednesday, March 03, 2004Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts
Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts offers common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. By meryl@lockergnome.com (Meryl). [Lockergnome’s Technology News]
Tuesday, March 02, 2004Aunt Tillie's OS X adventure
In a pair of recent essays, Eric Raymond tears into the open source community -- rightly so -- for its failure to deliver software that Aunt Tillie can use. He's spot on. One of his comments got me wondering, though:
If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programmers) they'd probe the local network neighborhood and omit the impossible entries. If they were really smart (like, say, Mac programmers) they'd leave the impossible choices in but gray them out, signifying that if your system were configured a bit differently you really could print on a Windows machine, assuming you were unfortunate enough to own one. [Eric Raymond: An Open-Source Horror Story]As it happens, I'd never tried printing to a Windows XP queue on my home network from my Mac, and I wondered how well those Mac programmers Eric talks about handled that case. So here, for your Flash viewing pleasure, is Aunt Tillie's OS X Adventure. ... [Jon's Radio]
Wednesday, February 25, 2004Apple RSS Feeds
Apple has put up a web page of all the RSS feeds it offers. [FS Consulting Inc's Weblog]
10.3: Create bootable ISO Image CDs using Disk Utility
This is simple - but I haven't seen it described quite this way before. I made a couple of coasters before trying this particular approach. Now that Disk Copy is merged into Disk Utility, this seems to work reliably if you ... [macosxhints] [dws.]