An Australian, American, German and Irishman all pull up chairs at a pub. The Australian orders a Foster's and declares it the finest on the planet. The American orders a Budweiser and declares it the king. The German orders a Heineken and claims it to be without peer. When the Irishmann orders a glass of milk, the bartender asks why. The Irishman replies "If these fellows aren't going to drink beer, neither am I."

The second thing would convince me to renew would be Unicode support on Radio for OS X. Unfortunately that would probably require making it a Cocoa app, and I realize that is not trivial. We're about to start a 1 to 1 program at our University's lab school, and I'd like the children to learn how to do weblogs. However, the school is Hawaiian immersion, meaning the children learn all of their subjects in Hawaiian, and therefore would do their weblogs in Hawaiian. While I've been able to hack things so that Radio and Userland can display Hawaiian, Mac OS X now ships with Hawaiian support in Unicode, and I'd like the software that they are going to use be able to handle it properly without my having to do a lot of custom coding. Of course I realize that it would cost Userland a lot more than my $40 to accomplish both of these, but I figured I'd throw it out there.

Anybody out there doing weblogs in other languages on OS X using Unicode? What software are you using?

One issue I have is that I can't remember the last time there was any major (or even minor) update or new feature. I've been using the same beta for at least a year. I've been using Frontier since the initial release of Aretha years ago, and Radio since it was a beta product.

Dave's been covering the issue of the new Movable Type pricing scheme, and I agree that $60 is a very reasonable price for a great piece of software, and at $40 Radio is a deal as well.

Scoble talks about some lean times at Userland, and how every $40 sale counted. I didn't realize it at the time, and glad that my $40 helped. But times are tougher now. I've never spent $60 on a cab ride and $100 meals (for our family of 4) happen once every couple of years. Should I expect new features for $40 a year, or simply be happy to have the exisiting functionality at I admit is a pretty reasonable price?

Userland's license allows me to keep using the product indefinitely without renewing, so what other incentive is there? Hosting on Weblogs.com? It has a few extra bells and whistles, but I can easily render it to the website on my ISP's server. Is there anyone out there in the same boat? Convince me why I shoud renew, please. I'd like to, but my newly found inner miser is telling me to pass.