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I have just one suggestion, Hugh. American Invisible has been down but not out due to a failed drive. To keep this hassle to a minimum next time invest in an inexpensive RAID card and an extra drive. Set it for mirror (RAID 1) and the next time you have a drive failure you won't miss a beat. And it takes less than an hour to rebuld a second drive.

At Last!

I can't believe how much time and trouble it takes to install a new C: drive, operating system, Office, drivers, firewall, anti-virus, then persuade Norton that we really did renew our subscription for a year, not just for the initial 90 days that Dell gave us, then restore all our data, then install my blogging software, then configure it, then....

Sorry, I'm ranting. I'll get back to work on Time, Please. I just hope this disk lasts longer than the first one did.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Conference

8:55:36 PM

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Some notes from the PDF Conference at the shrinking Seybold San Francisco. I didn't make it this year (for the first time in years) and the only thing I really regret not seeing was some of the web services sessions, including the one by Jake Savin. Maybe I can pick that up somewhere else.

It's been several years since I attended Seybold San Francisco and, given the economy and the somber time of year, I expected the conference to be scaled back. Still, it was a bit sad to see that the North Hall of Moscone was closed off, and the expo on the South Hall floor was pulled in from the walls, bracketed by black curtains. I remember when it was wall-to- wall in both halls and it would take a day and a half to properly explore all the booths. Had I been ambitious, I could have hit all the vendors on my "surgical strike" list in an hour and a half. So I paced myself by attending sessions, eating, walking around the block, eating, talking to vendors, eating, seeing industry friends, and eating. I did not lose weight on this trip.[more...][ Source: Claudia McCue's Radio Weblog]

If you're interested in how some big-time publishers are building their businesses around the PDF format this is worth a read.

More Info For weblogRecentPosts

11:44:23 AM

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This mod to weblogRecentPosts is a stellar improvement for those using Radio as a personal or professional KM tool. Now a quick glance at the Desktop Home Page shows you which posts are published, and to which Categories. Excellent!

Update to weblogRecentPosts.
Rapidly becoming one of my how did I live without it productivity tools for Radio blogging.

Bravo! weblogRecentPosts tells you if it's published or not..

Brian St. Pierre has modified my weblogRecentPosts hack to tell you which items haven't yet been published. His timing couldn't have been better -- I have three unpublished items at the moment, and to see them displayed as such is delightful.

I've incorporated Brian's changes to my copy also, so jump to either of our posts to download the code and read the instructions. :)
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This required almost no effort to setup -- I had it working in less than two minutes -- and it is precisely the sort of thing that must be built if Radio is too work in a consultative/confidential environment. It isn't enough to take great care in clicking categories. The default Radio setting of sending everything to the Home page practically ensures that you will, at some point, erroneously publish a private post in public. Not good.

While this litle fix won't solve the bigger issue, it is a great interim step and works like a charm.