I've been playing with Radio and Zope interop again, looking for a cleaner way to do the Zope Management System, as I had coded myself into a corner with the project. Following the pending introduction of the Instant Outliner, I'm playing with Zope generating OPML. I think that's the way to go.

It's a funny cycle -- at first ZopeFish was all about making Zope look like Manila, because that's what Radio wanted to see. Then UserLand introduced node types, and I bent them to my will and created the ZMS, which is where we are right now. Now I think that making Zope produce OPML is the way to go, and we'll see how far I get with that. So I've gone from abusing Zope to abusing Radio to hopefully finding a middle ground that plays well with everyone.

Sometimes I feel like all I'm doing is following UserLand's tail lights, but that's okay. They've got a lot to teach, and I'll always have a lot to learn. They are leading me to some very interesting places. I hope I can stay focused long enough to deliver something interesting, but that's hard to do when I'm getting paid to do other things.

Now if I could just get used to these new glasses.

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