Reminder for learning more about UserTalk, which is the language used to create macros in Radio.

Be certain to visit

http://radio.userland.com/programming

which is a good starting point. If something is too confusing, keep moving (the innards of the SOAP stuff makes my head spin, as does the XML details and the multi-threading -- but the rest aren't too bad) and find something that is more to your liking. And be persistant.

You could augment that by learning a little more about Frontier, which is where Radio came from. After you go thru the links at the URL above, then you might start prowling at http://www.scriptdigital.com/fnt/frontierNewbieToolbox.html

It is dealing with a much older version, but many of the basics remain accurate.

This is from an email I have sent to a new user of Radio.
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Glenn weighs in with this opinion about wireless devices, and their potential for human harm:

As the Wired News article reports, the governments standard is one inch per watt distance out of sheer caution, not empirical evidence; Wi-Fi devices tend to operate below 100 milliwatts, meaning you shouldn't be closer than 1/10th of an inch to the actual broadcast source.

But does this really answer whether it is safe to have your laptop in your lap? Remember there was a massive spike in the testicular and penile cancer rates that were affecting law enforcement officers a few years back -- their rate of a malignant diagnosis was way out of whack with the general population -- before it became standard practice not to rest the radar gun in their laps while driving after a speeding subject...

Granted, a Wi-Fi card puts out far less energy that a radar gun, or even a kitchen microwave (I hope. *gulp*), but still shouldn't our government agencies have to provide a little more information, given how somethings are designed to be used here?
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