Radio annoyance

Today I went looking for the backups of my Radio postings. I'd forgotten where I'd told Radio to store them, so I went to the Prefs page and clicked on Archiving in XML and noted that I'd asked Radio to store it in:

        D:\howardsmusings

Hopping to the D drive, I clicked on the howardsmusings folder and found... nothing. Empty. Hmmm. Then I noticed that there were two other folders: D:\howardsmusingscategories and D:\howardsmusingsposts. I wouldn't have created those. What gives.

A stupid append is what gives.

To build the path for the archive file, Radio takes the path I supplied: D:\howardsmusings and appends posts\00000001.xml. This results in D:\howardsmusingsposts\00000001.xml. The folder howardsmusingsposts doesn't exist, so -- like a good computer program -- it creates it and dumps the file there.

It did one smart thing (creating the folder) and one stupid thing (not treating what I typed as a full-fledged path.

This problem occurs elsewhere. The FTP option page states clearly: "Slashes are required at the end of directory paths and URLs."

What would be so hard about writing a routine that either checks for (back)slashes and sticks them on where required, or using something like python's os.path.join function to intelligently build file paths? Or both?   

'Jesus' Inscription on Stone May Be Earliest Ever Found. A stone box bearing the engraved words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" could be the earliest known artifact relating to the historical Jesus. By John Noble Wilford. [New York Times: Science]

This "stone box" is an ossuary, a repository for the bones of the deceased. Any chance we could yank some DNA from them and clone us up Jesus's brother? Man, wait until the millenialists get a load of that.  

Microsoft to Sell Siebel Product on New Platform. NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.and Siebel Systems Inc. (SEBL.O) will tighten their already close relationship by jointly selling Siebel's customer management software on Microsoft's fledgling .NET platform, the companies said Monday. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

Prelude to a merger?