Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Apologies in advance to Dave Winer Dave Winer wisely suggested that I take a look at Dogma 2000. His advice was sound because I was obsessing over learning Radio 8 and ways to make my site more inviting to read. I've made much more progress since I began just posting and doing some of the basics. However, I can't help myself. If one were interested in having a "custom theme" done, who would you turn to? Clearly, this has to do with everything from preserving all of the functionality of Radio to smart design principles involving fonts, colors, layout, etc. Any suggestions? 9:25:07 PM     Comments[]

Inevitable errors of bureacracy![Fox News] Our nation remains at risk. Can we see the need for sweeping and dramatic change? Isn't this what we get when we allow two parties populated by career politicians to chase special interests for nearly a century? When will we wake up? What will we decide to do? 2:40:49 PM     Comments[]

Making Radio do the "simple" things! I just edited my Radio Static? document. The changes were minor, but I've added some links that I think are important in gaining an understanding of how to make Radio do the things we want it to do. Andy Sylvester is going to help with some of the answers as are others. A lot of my remaining list is style & look related. Moving things around, selecting a different set of colors or icons, making areas narrower or wider, etc. I've come to the conclusion that I need a tutorial or something resembling a recipe for cooking to accomplish much of what I want to do in Radio. "Go edit your such-and-such template" will get users like me in far more trouble than a recipe that says: 1) back up your www folder to a safe location 2) go to your desktop web site 3) go to Prefs 4) find the ... You get the idea. For those of us that aren't savvy about scripts, macros, finding and pasting into the proper areas of these templates, etc., we need something more. [My impatience is showing.] Russ Lipton "gets it." His instruction is great. Others do, too. I simply need for them to hurry. I'm ready to get at the answers in my list of questions and my earlier to do list. 11:39:27 AM     Comments[]

Why I have a weblog! Dan Bricklin's influence on my web interests has been paramount. From the earliest search for a tool to use to do a simple web site, I found Dave Winer, scripting.com and Radio. From these people and sites I've learned of many more. I'm interested in some of them because they teach me about weblogs and Radio in particular. I'm interested in others because they write about something I'm interested in. Dave's given you his take. Sam's given you his take. Here's mine: to learn the hands-on stuff associated with web sites, HTML, web services, XML and the future of computing to have a place to post my thoughts for family, friends and others to have a way to influence change - this will come with readership, but Dan Bricklin's essay about pampleteers sums it up to see if there is money to be made in writing, weblogging or providing assistance to others who need tools for collaboration to journalize my interests - see the About link or you might want to read this Now, if only I can learn how to: develop my own theme/look without undoing all the work I've done so far figure out if moving to a new domain(FTP) is going to alter the links to my stories put links for my RSS feeds subscriptions on my site put links for my posts by category create a search capability provide the checkbox for the "open links in a new window" feature paste pictures & clipart into my posts 10:28:16 AM     Comments[]

Good Morning! Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "what for?" [Steven Wright] For those of you interested in revolutionary thinking about local, state and national government, I'm going to begin posting articles from Craig Cantoni. You'll find them here along with information about Craig. It will take some time to get these posted, but keep checking back. They are worth the read. Craig's thinking on these matters is as clear as it gets. 7:55:17 AM     Comments[]

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