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Friday, March 15, 2002 |
Foxtales, mudflaps & curbfeelers
The rendering of my posts has changed yet again. No apparent reason. Certainly, no explanation.
DIY. Sure, I do it myself (DIM). What else can anyone do? Those in the know about this stuff are too busy to respond to emails. From now on the question is going to be YBH - Yes, but how? Either this junk can be explained or it can't. Leaving hackers to figure it out is going to create a very satisfied customer set made up of 1000 hackers who "get it." Those interested in a dependable tool that can be used to develop and manage a good-looking weblog will ultimately go elsewhere. Foxtales, mudflaps and curbfeelers may be great, but dependability and predictability are worth something as well. This thing starts up in a new world every day. Pedals reversed (i.e. fonts changed), ignition switch in a different spot (i.e. templates altered) and no owner's manual (i.e. no owner's manual). Yeah, I'm frustrated again. I'm just hopeful that all who are playing with the timing belt, drive train and compression ratio (i.e. RCS, MetaWeglog API and XML tools) are finding a reliable, predictable and enjoyable computing experience! : )
5:12:15 PM 
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Forget blog gravity
For the most part today, I've blown off any focus on this tool called Radio. Blog gravity is sure to drag me down the charts.
I went "over to the other side" and looked at some incredible sites - a large number of which were done with Movable Type. Just as Russ Lipton sees a place for City Desk as well as Radio, the designers at Movable Type are top notch. One of them, Mena Trott, just won the weblog award at SXSW. Admittedly, these folks aren't writing things like this:
RFC: MetaWeblog API. "It's time to broaden the XML-RPC pipe that tools use to connect to Radio, and in doing so offer an evolution to the art of scripting weblog tools."
But, I'm not struggling to understand their posts either. I guess it is all a matter of what we choose to write about, and to whom we're attempting to appeal.
Having been away from this site most of the day, I'm typing something that again is appearing in Times. I've changed nothing today. We'll see how this renders, but I'm beginning to think that things can be changed behind the scenes without an effort on my part. Maybe that's what upstreaming, parts and update Radio.root really mean!
4:35:32 PM
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Quality?
My third attempt this morning at making the news aggregator post something here. Everything I wanted to post is now gone from the news aggregator. Wonderful way to start a day - frustrated by the tools first thing. Oh yeah, I forgot, user error and RTFM. Maybe I've simply selected a tool for programmers and not one that's ready for the public at large. Or, maybe the public at large is deemed to be a band of idiots because we're not programmers. Who cares?
Steven Wright. "It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." [Quotes of the Day]
10:10:32 AM
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