Monday, March 25, 2002
Another goal for tonight: update the story about Esmé hitting another kid at day care last Wednesday. Let's just say that when I picked her up on Friday, she came right up to me and said "Dad, this time no one told me to hit a friend and so I hit Elizabeth but not very hard and in the stomach so I think my punishment should be no dessert."
Hmmm. Methinks someone is testing boundaries...
Tonight's goal: transfer settings (and content) to desktop. See if we can make that my "home base." At the same time, download Movable Type, to begin expirementing with that.
I'm convinced that any good log (k-log, whatever) must provide the ability to manage (review, edit, repost) your own content. I guess that's why I view the e-mail to log feature almost as a last resort. It's a one-way trip that you can't correct until you get back to the server.
It's worth pointing out some of John Robb's comments on this topic. As I re-read his thoughts, it occurs to me that the distinction should be made between adding content and managing content. Perhaps my problem lies in the need to manage, while not being able to trust my server connection.
This begs the question: does the source of my trouble lie in my software, my server, or my internet connection? A combination of all three?
Brought my laptop home this weekend. All of my recent customization and posting has taken place on said laptop. As near as I can figure, most of the content exists within the weblogData.root file sitting on my local HD.
Whenever I'm home, though, I use my desktop PC. It's always on, connected to the internet with DSL, etc. Big monitor, full-sized keyboard. If I had my druthers, I'd always work on a desktop, but since my job takes me lots of different places, my primary every day machine is this laptop.
All of this serves as a preface to a piece I'll be putting together later today that continues the thread from last week. I would have loved to have posted to this log over the weekend, but I didn't, mostly because when I'm at home I don't want to use my laptop. Now I could set up my desktop to be my "primary" Radio installation, but I can't trust the DSL connection (unfortunately), plus I've got the hatches pretty well battened-down, so doing anything other than e-mailing content during the day pretty much becomes impossible.
I will detail all of this a bit later. In short, I may be running into a "unique" set of user circumstances that prevents me from embracing Radio as my content management system of choice.
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