transcendental petroglyphs

will leshner's cave wall scratchings

@ Saturday, April 20, 2002

here's a question

Ever since I saw my wife give birth to our two children I've wondered something. Is the fact that women are the only ones who experience child birth proof that god exists and is a man, or proof that god doesn't exist?
Am I going to get flamed for this?

comment ()  10:35:14 PM  #

Radio Poster 1.1

I had thought of working on a bunch of Radio Poster features and releasing 1.5, but now I think I'm just going to add the ability to post to Blogger and MovableType weblogs and release it as 1.1. I might also add getting posts and saving them to a folder. I'm going to need all of this, if I decide to move to MovableType. I haven't decided I'm definitely going to do it, but I'm getting a lot closer.

comment ()  10:21:19 PM  #

ResPloder

I haven't officially released it yet, but I've tentatively put ResPloder up on The La Jolla Underground. I haven't yet tested it at all on Mac OS 9, so there may be problems. But it works pretty well on Mac OS X. I just wonder if there's any use for it. I use it occasionally if I have a file with PNGs in the resource fork and I want to either browse the individual PNGs or I want to edit and import them. I can explode the file, edit the individual PNGs, and then implode the new resources back into a file. In the future I was thinking of adding some kind of post-explode processing. I might even be able to do something with RBScript (or maybe Lua) so that a user could write scripts for what should happen to the data as it is either exploded or imploded. Other possibilities are showing a list of resources before exploding so the user can decide what to get. There may be some use yet for this thing :)

comment ()  10:18:18 PM  #

burningbird feeling sick

Looks like Burningbird isn't feeling well. I hope she gets better soon. And Jonathon isn't doing well either. I hope he makes a speedy recovery. I wonder if they caught it from me. That would have to be an Internet virus, though. I guess there's a lot of that going around :)

comment ()  4:39:39 PM  #

MovableType

I already have an MT weblog, but I've never linked to it from this weblog. And I never will. I wonder if anybody has seen it. I have nothing to say in it, but I post every day. That's all I'm going to say. And it isn't my daughter's weblog. She really is writing that herself. She doesn't need any help from me.

comment ()  9:12:45 AM  #

confessions

I have a confession to make. I'm thinking of moving my weblog to MovableType. I've been playing quite a bit with MT behind the scenes and it is really quite good. I like the default look quite a lot. I really would like to make my weblog my own but I lack the imagination to do it. So I need a good default look. MT has that. Also MT supports the Blogger API. That's important as I want to be able to update my weblog with Radio Poster. If and when I switch that will become Weblog Poster :) Radio Poster doesn't yet support the Blogger API. Only the MetaWeblog API. And Radio is the only weblog tool that understands that API. But Radio Poster will soon speak Blogger API as well (soon, as in the next couple of days). Then all I'd need would be to dump out all of my Radio posts and feed them into MT.
So why would I make such a move? Two reasons. I'm worried about having my weblog on UserLand's server. I only get a fixed amount of disk space and I don't really know what happens once I've used it up. I don't have to do it that way, of course. Radio supports upstreaming to my own FTP server. But if I did that then what is the point of Radio. There is a point, of course. It is very easy to set up. Much easier than MovableType. But I've set up MT on my own server, so the hard part is done. Also, there are other features of Radio that are cool, but I don't use them. I don't use the news aggregator. I don't use Instant Outlining (why is the subject of another post). I won't be losing much by making the switch.
The second reason for moving is that there is a bug in Radio that prevents my weblog from correctly upstreaming. If you post to your weblog using anything but the desktop web page (for example, posts using the blogger API and the metaweblog API) then your archive files do not upstream. One post from your desktop web page fixes things, but I don't want to have to ever post from that desktop web page again. And UserLand seems to be ignoring my pleas to fix the bug. I've looked at the code and I'm thinking it is a one-line fix. They could fix it in, like, five minutes. Heck, I could probably fix it. I've tried everything I can think of to bring it to their attention. I've posted to the Radio discussion group. I've even sent email to Dave directly. It isn't working. So I'm thinking of jumping ship. I consider it to be a major bug. A showstopper, as they say.
I haven't made my final decision, but I'm close. I had planned to stay a year, at least, as I've already paid my $40. But I'm not sure it's worth it. My weblog has become very important to me and I want it to work correctly.

comment ()  9:10:47 AM  #