Saturday, July 2, 2005

Polite rant From what I gather, the multi-author tool sounds appropriate. I want 2-machine posting more than I want mobile posting. Folder synchronization sounds good I'm very unclear on the Asset Manager recommendation--it appears to be something to do with posting pictures. Interesting also that its author sounds like he may be leaving Radio behind for Moveable Type. I'm grateful for the help to be had here, and to the folks doing the helping. I find the overall process awfully daunting: choosing between these different tools will take days of experimentation--I know that's why they call it the frontier, except we're now 15 years in and I'm not a cowboy. Folder synchronization also sounds ideal, if I can figure out how to configure _that_. Not clear on the advantages or disadvantages of these various solutions, though I'll be finding out. It's funny, I suppose the easiest solution would just be to designate one machine the weblog machine and the other not, but I'm willing to go through endless hoops just to not be limited like that. 10:51:48 AM    comment []  trackback []

Why is this Radio stuff so hard? Simple posting is easy, and that's great; anything beyond that and you immediately have to be a programmer. So what's it going to be? Mail-to-weblog? Multi-author tool? Asset Manager? Gaak!! I installed Asset Manager years ago but still don't really know what it does. Why? Because it's for people who already understand it, as with so much of this. Have I ever used it? Not sure. I successfully uploaded some pictures, but that may have been using Dave Winer's tool instead. How would I know now? And pictures aren't what I wanted to do anyway. (So I'm not clear on why it was suggested in response to my 2 Computers question.) Multi-author sounds best to me: David A and David B. Why would I choose one of the other ones? 10:28:07 AM    comment []  trackback []

Good Supreme Court crib sheet Makes me want to read more about the current justices. 10:24:51 AM    comment []  trackback []

It's funnier in portuguese... do you know why some people cross the number 7 (for example, the Lucida Blackletter font: http://www.fontage.com/pages/lblack.html)? Because when Moses announced the seventh commandment, "You shall not commit adultery", everybody said "Cross the seven! Cross the seven!". (It's funnier in portuguese...) Roberto 9:02:10 AM    comment []  trackback []