Monday, February 4, 2002

Once I upstreamed (is that really a word? Guess so.), it was trivial to determine the URL's for the Radio Commentary and Software Released categories. Of course, neither of these URLs will work correctly in the context of my Radio desktop. Off to dig through macroland again.... 10:26:30 PM

I kind of like having "[Macro error: Can't compile this script because "#" is an illegal character.]" as the header on my blog. It gives immediate indication that everything within is coming from the perspective of a Radio Novice. At the same time, I would like to think that my experience with this thing called 'the web' is enough such that these opinions have validity or, at the least, are rooted in some reasonable lines of thinking? I wonder why that error message is there. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way for me to view my 'home as in published by radio.weblogs.com' version of a page without upstreaming? 10:20:24 PM

Random Radio App bugs (On Mac OS X): - when viewing the hierarchical view of any of the various random windows that appear under the Windows menu, why do the little 'click this triangle to show contents' triangles not actually point down when a branch node is expanded? - Opened up a tremendously large node-- 500+ items. Scrolled most of the way through the window, then scrolled up rather quickly. Scroll thumb hit top before contents had been fully scrolled. Had to scroll down slightly, then back up to cause the thumb and contents to resync regarding scrolling. - Why can't the error messages in the 'Error Info' dialog box be selected/copied/pasted? That's annoying. - If I select 'Preview Page' under Tools -> Static Pages, an error box informs me that it can't coerce "About Radio UserLand" to an address. OK-- beyond the correspondence between the quoted stuff and the title of the one window Radio has on screen, what the hell does this error message mean? Why is the menu item even enabled if it doesn't do anything useful? 7:54:34 PM

$40 sucked. I have bought Radio UserLand, now I need to use it. The exploration has begun. In theory, I have created two categories. The first category is called "Radio Commentary" and is devoted to commentary on this whole Radio thing. The quoted "Radio Commentary" would have been a link to the category, but the help I have found on using Radio so far assumes you have upstreaming enabled. I would much rather the various howtos, tutorials, and documentation assume your content is intended to be universal. Example: The 'Including Images' HOWTO would be 10x more useful if it demonstrated the use of the radio.macros.imageref() macro to create an image ref that works on the desktop (without a network connection) and 'in syndication'. Second example: I would bet that there is a way to use a similar macro such that I could have a link the categories on my desktop and 'in syndication', but I have no idea how to figure that out. Worse; I have no way of generating-- well, I don't know of a way (admitting full ignorance)-- the URL to a category without having a live, fully upstreaming, network connection. The second category is called 'Software Released' and is generally devoted to commentary regarding bits of code that I have unleashed upon the world. The category will also contain commentary on other folks' software as I see fit. 7:35:13 PM