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Saturday, June 20, 2009
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Quoting this post by Userland Software, in case you haven't heard:
Radio UserLand service closing
UserLand has decided to close the Radio UserLand and Salon Radio services as of December 31, 2009.
You can continue to use your Radio weblog hosted with UserLand until the end of the year.
If you plan on continuing to use Radio to publish your blog, we would recommend that you look for an alternative web host if your weblog is being published to a UserLand server. You can use the FTP option [1] in Radio to publish to your own server.
The closure of Radio will also mean that the UserLand-hosted comments, trackbacks and stats tracking will be unavailable after the shutdown date.
If you have any questions, please send them to customerservice@userland.com
UserLand Software
[1] http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/prefs/1/5
To see the original post with more context:
UserLand Product News: Radio UserLand
8:35:27 PM
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Once again it's been quite a while since I posted anything to this
blog. But I haven't lost the blogging habit altogether: I've
been posting things somewhere else.
I was faithful for several years to Radio Userland as my blogging
venue. (And I will always remember it fondly: it was my
first.) But the time came when I could no longer resist the
allure of a less familiar pretty face, and I have begun a new
relationship ... with LiveJournal.
In case you're not familiar with it, LiveJournal is a hybrid: a
combination of blogging and social networking. I rather like it
(is this New Relationship Energy talking?).
My new blog can be found
here: http://edelsont.livejournal.com.
You will follow it avidly.
And has this Radio blog been relegated to the dustbin of
history? By no means! It's just become more
specialized. This will be (for the foreseeable future) my "geek
blog".
In other words, what I will plan to post here, from now on, is
computer technical stuff. Even some postings on software might
go on LiveJournal, if they are directed at an audience of (potential)
users of the software, rather than at the sort of people who program,
or otherwise work with computers professionally. So if you're
hard core, stick around! Well, visit me at LJ too, but come back
here when you have the yen to get down into the bits and bytes.
I did create one post "over there" which some might think, by my own
criteria, belonged "over here". It's about my programming
language preferences (hint: the title is "In Good Taste: Very
Schemely"), and you can find it
at http://edelsont.livejournal.com/1038.html.
Take a look, and judge for yourself where it belongs.
I myself would say that that that posting actually is in the right
place: that it isn't directed at a technical audience. The only
reasons it gives for my preferences are non-technical ones. I
was trying to give the non-geeks a little taste of what it's like to
care about such things.
I hope that you enjoy the new blog. And that you continue to
enjoy this one, too ... if you're into that sort of thing.
Categorie(s) for this post:
Blogging,
Radio Userland,
Programming Languages.
3:45:34 PM
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Toofus was a fifteen-year-old retired racing greyhound, who had been
part of my household for five and a half years. Fifteen is really
old: the median longevity of the breed is a little more than thirteen
years. He had various health problems, particularly gradual loss of
some of the function of the hind legs; so I knew that he was slowing
down, and that I should not be surprised if he came to the end of the
road within the next year, or even in any given month. But there was
nothing acute, nothing to indicate that it was imminent ....
... until 5 am on Sunday, October 12, when I was awakened by noises,
and went and found that things were a good deal worse. He had fallen,
struggled to get up, and fallen again -- several times, apparently,
because all four legs had places where skin had come off as he
staggered against the legs of the dining room table.
This was on a hard-floored surface. When I got him on to the carpet,
he was able to stand and walk. But shakily.
I began to face the question of whether it was time to euthanize him.
I talked to various people on the phone.
Meanwhile, I was observing that he was somewhat stabilized, but not
showing any signs of returning to the previous day's level of
functioning. He could get up, and walk around some; but he fell down
several more times.
I became more or less clear that it was the right thing to let him go, to
"send him to Rainbow Bridge", as the current expression has it; but I
thought that it could wait for the next day, when the regular
veterinarians would be open. Then, in the evening, it got worse yet:
he fell down again, and, after twenty minutes, had not made any
attempt to get up. So then it became clear, intellectually but also
emotionally, that the more merciful thing was to grant him his
honorable discharge, and do it quickly.
I ended up using a "pet ambulance" service to get him to the Cary pet
emergency clinic. He was given the lethal injection, an overdose of a
sedative, at about 11 pm. It was over in less than a minute.
I cried some, there and then. The next day, I was sad, but not
intensely so; I was at peace with my decision. However, a month
later, I am under no illusion that I am done grieving.
I loved that dog.
Categorie(s) for this post:
2:20:24 PM
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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Actually, my home page at
The Well has had, for some time, a link called "Notes on my
spiritual journey". But the linked-to document was
in plain text, and not so easy to read.
Now, there's a newer version up, in HTML, and the content has been
revised a good bit, too. You can find it via the home page, or
at http://www.well.com/user/edelsont/personal/my-spiritual-journey.html.
It offers some insight into the "Quaker" and "Taoist" parts of my
self-description (in the masthead of this blog). It doesn't say
anything about the "poly" part, but I hope to address that soon.
My
Spiritual Journey may also be the only page on the Web with
links to all of these Wikipedia pages (among others):
At first glance, my spiritual journey may look like a random
walk. But there's some interesting scenery, and good mental
exercise, along the way.
Categorie(s) for this post:
About
me,
Philosophy,
Quakerism, Writing.
11:05:25 AM
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Friday, July 25, 2008
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I closed the last post by predicting that
my software
page was going to grow. Well, technically, it hasn't;
it's gotten smaller. But that's because its previous
content (a general description of my recent software projects)
has been moved to a new location: http://www.well.com/user/edelsont/software/as-developer.html.
The new content at the old location is more of an index to my
software-related pages: three of them, so far.
Which brings me to my main point: the newest of these pages describes
a Moneydance extension I've written. Yes, after talking a lot
about extensions I planned to write, I've finally got one
working. It's called "Security Price Entry", and its purpose is
to make it easier to record the prices of your stocks, bonds, and/or
mutual funds from your broker's monthly statements.
The description of it can be found here: http://www.well.com/user/edelsont/software/moneydance/my-extensions/security-price-entry.html.
Now the bad news: it isn't ready for general distribution yet.
Actually, I'm hoping to find a beta tester or two.
The ideal beta tester would be another developer of Moneydance
extensions. But any Moneydance user who's interested in such a
capability should be able to take it for a spin, if I send it to you
in pre-built form.
Categorie(s) for this post:
Personal Finance Software.
5:55:58 PM
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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Until a few days aga,
my home page at The
Well didn't have anything on it about my interests and
activities in computer technology. Now it does.
I've created
a software
page with a general overview of the tools I'm using, and the
projects I'm using them on ... or hope to use them on in the future.
Expect this page to grow.
4:11:12 PM
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© Copyright
2009
Tom Edelson.
Last update:
6/20/09; 8:55:01 PM.
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