My idea is to maintain multiple weblogs, one up in the cloud, another on my home FTP server. There were several things I needed to do to make this happen:

1. Turned off upstreaming for the mail weblog, by editing the #upstream.xml file and setting the type to "none". I did this because by default, even if an item is categorized, it goes to the main weblog. I didn't want that, because I wanted complete segregation of items.
2. Created a catergory for each weblog that I wanted to maintain.
3. Turned on HTML rendering for each category.
4. Created an #upstream.xml file in each category folder. For the one I wanted public, I pointed it at the cloud. For the personal one, I pointed it at my local FTP site.
5. Finally, I posted something to each category to cause the pages to be built.

As a first approximation, it seemed to work. But there are some catches. Gems and Stories are associated with the main weblog, and now I have no easy way to use them. It is possible to theme each category separately, but you have to do it through the filesystem, and not through Radio.

Sounds like something that could be rolled into a tool... I could look into how Radio is managing the files in the main site and then extend them to do the same thing for the cateories. Should be simple, all of the code is there, it just needs some help aiming at different folders.

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This one and the next one were for a bug I found at work, which has one of the most restrictive firewall/proxy systems I've seen.

Can't blame 'em though, we're a bank.

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