Sunday, January 27, 2002

>>>Thanks to Phil for pointing out the glossary.  Who knew that there were over 600 items available from the Gossary? I thought this one was kinda cool. 11:52:56 PM

>>>Paul Boutin says, "After a day of RealOne instant-messaging me about all the subscription content I was missing, I was pining for the days of Office98's little paper clip man. At least he was trying to help." I'm seriously considering uninstalling Real's latest effort.  The intrusive way that RealOne IM's me even when I'm not using it is completely annoying.  Also, at US $9.95/month it's totally overpriced.  That's almost 10 bucks!  What are they thinking? On a related note, I'd hope that after paying for the service that they would  respect my privacy.  I'm opposed to their data collection practices. 9:25:57 PM

>>>Conway's Game of Life is a really cool thing to watch and this version is really good.  Try it out and see for yourself. 8:02:00 PM

>>>The "What Ice Cream Flavor Are You" quiz says I am: 33.3% Chocolate Chip 22.2% Vanilla 22.2% Butter Pecan 11.1% Chocolate 11.1% Strawberry 7:49:07 PM

>>>Bitter.Sweet is not only a great idea for a weblog, it's a great design as well.  I'm hoping for some really interesting content.  Just think of the possibilities. 7:40:33 PM

>>>I have a hard enough time parking my little Ford Escort in the city, what would I do if I had one of these? 7:30:58 PM

>>>Pretty funny jab at Microsoft, or users in general.  You be the judge. 7:28:35 PM

>>>Bryan Bell says, "Where were you guys before Radio?"  From what I can tell Bryan has done most all of the themes for Manilla, Radio's Big brother.  Thanks Bryan!  He asks why are so many people actually creating Themes for Radio now. I have an account at weblogger.com and I wanted to change my template but it all seemed too difficult.  I just didn't understand what Manilla was all about.  I didn't understand how the publishing worked.  I had no idea what all of those macros did, etc. I have to say that I felt the same way when I first started using Radio, but since it was on my local file system I felt a bit more brave.  I have also blogged a lot more since I got Radio.  For me, Radio simplified things just enough to get me over the initial hump. As as I started posting more, I wanted to put a new look on my site.  Looking around in the Radio community I saw that a lot of people were doing the same and I though, "How hard could it be?"  Garret seemed to be having a lot of success and I looked at his stuff to get an idea of how to do it. Also, the use of the News Aggregator has kept me feeling more 'in touch' with my fellow bloggers.  It has really kept me up to date with what people are doing with Radio.  This really encouraged me and whenever I've been stuck I've gotten a lot of help from the Discussion Group, especially from Lawrence. That's it. 7:26:22 PM

>>>Cute PHP Library 0.23 looks like it might save me a lot of time.  I have written some libraries to try and handle a lot of this stuff, but this one looks a lot more complete. 7:03:18 PM