radio, elegant? let's face it. elegance is subjective as hell. i find a command line beautifully elegant at times. but a really good example comes to mind; one could walk up to any mac user today and hear that iphoto is 'elegant.' radio 8 and other weblog/cms environments are fundamentally different from iphoto; they present you with a browser interface - with all the limitations browsers bring to the aesthetic. no, radio 8 is no iphoto. but it's got potential. with radio, the appealing bryan bell designs are present throughout the standard install and main interface, and if they don't appeal to you, you can use themes or edit the interface templates directly to suit your particular tastes. 'control' is the byword here. but i believe a program must have 'functional elegance' too. after a mere three days, i can't honestly say i'm completely qualified to judge functional elegance. at this juncture, i can say with confidence that radio is efficient, practical and smooth. it's got a clean, simple interface. it's run constantly on my win2k 400 mhz laptop without a glitch for three days, with minimal impact on system processes. but elegance? there are aspects of elegance ... the most prominent to me are the upstreaming capabilities. that server on your desktop sits in the background like an english butler, waiting at your elbow for your least command. dump anything in radio's 'www' folder, and it's been filed, uploaded, backed up, statically rendered, content managed, diced, chopped, ground, and served on a platter. it'll be taken for granted, i fear, and receive short shrift in the reviews. no, what i'd say is give radio a spin, and see for yourself. who knows, maybe you can *make* it meet your standard of elegance. [oops, lost the link!]  11:40:12 PM     Add a comment   

"What I can't seem to find is a weather feed or a stock feed. I can't beleive none of the weather sites have put up an XML feed. Pass the ZIP code as a parameter to the URL, and a short weather forcast is returned. Same for stocks. Send a ticker symbol, and both the current price and day's change are returned." []

Anyone got a pointer to a good weather feed?  11:22:47 PM     Add a comment   

I want Muppets action figures. (Raving Toy Maniac) [FARK]  9:45:38 PM     Add a comment   

Camaro Mullet Lovesick also returns only one item on google. At least until we linked to it. [FARK]

If you don't know what this is about, you're not reading enough FARK. The game is to pick three words for a google search that will return a minimal number of results. Zero is good. One is a perfect score.

PS - No cheating by enclosing your words in quotes  9:03:20 PM     Add a comment   

Dan Shafer: My First Review of Radio 8.  [Scripting News]  8:18:31 PM     Add a comment   

By the the by, if you haven't check out Radio 8 Yet, you must be living under a rock. This is the most impressive piece of software I've seen since, well, shit... Since way back when.  8:12:28 PM     Add a comment   

PS - If you're wondering what happened to thingumabob.net... So am I! When I registered the domain, they took my money, but never flipped the switch. Yep. It sucks but so far, no one has fixed it.  8:03:40 PM     Add a comment   

Woo-hoo, I've got my blog back. Well, not my blog but a blog. I'm stoked. I forgot how much fun this is!  8:01:44 PM     Add a comment