transcendental petroglyphs

will leshner's cave wall scratchings

@ Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Gave Baba some more fluids today. He isn't eating but the fluids appear to be keeping him feeling better. But you can't help feeling that we are just keeping him alive unnaturally.

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Robb and Scoble: Radio UserLand for Webloggers. [Scripting News]: a really nice tutorial. I actually figured out that linking to other people's weblog gets people to look at your weblog. It makes sense. One thing I don't yet know is whether or not you can post to a category without posting to your main weblog. I'd like to keep my categories as weblogs separate from my "main" log. Is that possible?

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"One more BTW, Microsoft's wizzy text editor on Windows is pretty good but it could be better and the feature is not available in the Mac version of IE. (Big problem, we have lots of Mac users.)" [Scripting News]:That would be cool, but OmniWeb 's text input box does spell check for you, I've discovered.

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Ambrosia releases Coldstone gaming engine: Could this be used to build a GUI on top of NetHack I wonder?

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PC Loving Writer Switches To Mac: He's only trying it temporarily and I'm betting he's going to go back to Windows. But I hear there are a lot of Linux users who are giving Mac OS X a try.[MacSlash]

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My plan for the next REALbasic app is "Captain Stuffit". I plan to wrap some of the Stuffit SDK calls in an RB plugin and then write an app that would allow the user to choose files to stuff into an archive. This wouldn't be a general archive creation tool. You'd only be able to stuff a single folder, but you could choose to exclude or include items in that folder. So the way it would work is this. You choose a folder to stuff and the app would show you a list of items in that folder with a checkbox next to each item. Uncheck the items you don't want and click the "Stuffit" button. You'll be prompted for a name and location for the new archive and out will pop the archive. Why do this? Because when stuffing under Mac OS X you end up with an unwanted .DS_Store file. I could just write an app that stuffs a folder while excluding that file, but "Caption Stuffit" could be just a bit more powerful.
Now the big question: If I release Captain Stuffit for free do I have to pay to license the Stuffit SDK?

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I can't believe I am actually contemplating paying UserLand for Radio. I think it has the two best web apps: weblogs (personal diary) and a news aggregator (personal news). And you can build other apps as well.

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I'm going to experiment with a REALbasic weblog. Not just thoughts on REALbasic itself but a diary of my REALbasic explorations. I've written quite a few little RB apps and a couple of big ones. Two can be found at amianduri. REALbasic makes it very easy to build Mac apps and those apps can run on Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 (and 8), and even Windows. The same project can target all of those platforms. Versions of RB before 4 could even target 68K Macs. Very cool, I think.

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