Now that Google is indexing DecidingBetter.com, I've moved my personal journal there. I  use Bloxsom to render pages. I never really felt at home using Radio 8 for the journal.

1. Speed. Things bog down compared to working locally. Even working locally, some operations where the browser talks to the app take a long time on a fast machine. I'm used to using Radio with Manila for On Deciding Better where I write in the Radio outline then send it up to the server while I do other things.

2. WYSIWYG. It works within the browser on the Windows machine, not on the Mac. But I base Radio on the Mac. So on the Mac I use BBEdit. Or fool with vim in the Unix layer. With Blosxom, I just stay in text all the time.

3. Remote entry. RU is designed for a single user on a single computer. To use it remotely, I need to have the app running. My Cube is a multiuser machine, so I can't keep the app running.

4. Subscription. I'm thinking that my first year is up. When I paid the first $40, I got Radio 8 and 40 mb of disk. Now I'll pay the same just for the disk space as there have been no updates I've noticed in the past year. I get to keep the app without paying. It seems better to use all the disk space I have (including running an Apache server from home).

I will probably keep the associated sites here up (Newfoundland, etc), but may need to store them elsewhere, using radio's ftp capacity

7:36:13 AM