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301 - April 25, 2003

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED My new address is http:www.superluminal.comdaveweblog My new RSS address is http:www.superluminal.comdaveweblogindex.xml. All new material will be posted to the new blog, including the further exciting episodes of my migration from Radio to MovableType. Join me, won't you
http://www.superluminal.com/dave/weblog/

Radio to MT: Migrating the data - April 24, 2003

This evening I used Bill Kearney's Exporter tool. Exporter is a Radio tool that exports Radio data into into a text format that MT can import. The process is: you install the tool into Radio, run it, FTP the resulting file to the server on which MT is installed, then run MT's import function. This all worked very smoothly for me, with one hitch. When I write blog entries in Radio, I always use the sequence "<br>n<br>n" to separate paragraphs, because I don't like the way that...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/23.html#a188

Morning notes - April 23, 2003

I had a tooth extracted this morning, which was a new experience for me. It was a mature wisdom tooth that had cracked a couple of years ago. It was repaired at the time, but I was warned that it would eventually have to come out. It was pretty quick. Now I'm waiting for the anesthesetic to finish wearing off. Good news and not-so-good news on the AmphetaDesk front. The good new is that Morbus sent me a new version (2.27) of the XML::Parser:Expat module, and it cut the memory usage on my..
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/23.html#a187

Ongoing - April 22, 2003

Another interesting post by Tim Bray, who has rapidly become one of my favorite writers in blogland. So far, I've enjoyed every one of his essays, especially this one, this one, and particularly this one. RSS Needs Fixing. There are two big problems with RSS that aren't going away and are just going to have to be fixed to avoid a train-wreck, given the way this thing is taking off. They are first, what can go in a <description, and second, the issue of relative URIs. (Warning: yet another..
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/22.html#a186

Morning notes - April 22, 2003

Hey Don, thanks for the linkage and the nice words. BTW, it's spelled "SOAPscope", without the space. ;-) On the blog authoringpublishing front, MT is still the front-runner, but the other one that I'm looking at is a spiffy beast called Textpattern. It's younger than MT, and therefore doesn't (yet) have the community and third-party plugin support that MT has, but it's PHP (which I'm more experienced with than Perl), and it had some very nice authoring capabilities, including a...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/22.html#a185

AmphetaDesk: early impressions - April 21, 2003

Initial problem: AD wouldn't read my Radio mySubscriptions.opml file. Solution: after seeing a comment somewhere about Unicode content in mySubscriptions.opml causing a problem for someone, I fired up SlickEdit and discovered two locations in the file where the xmlUrl attribute string was terminated by a low-ASCII character (i.e., in the control character range). Once I had eliminated those, AD slurped it up and went to town. I don't like the default skin very much, but I quickly discovered.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/21.html#a184

Spring cleaning - April 20, 2003

I've been reasonably satisfied with Radio for quite a while. In fact, I recently renewed my subscription. I've even been dabbling lately in Radio's development environment. But I've been contemplating a change, for various reasons that fit into two broad categories. Technical I've been having fun playing with UserTalk, I like writing code in an outliner, and I find the idea of an environment built on a hierarchical database very interesting. But UserTalk and the ODB have no applicability.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/20.html#a183

Regime Change - April 13, 2003

John Kerry made a visit recently to Peterborough, NH (where I live). It has been widely reported that he said "We need a regime change here in the United States." Of course, this created the usual brouhaha, both nationally and locally (several outraged letters in the local paper; sorry, no links). As all of the local letters published so far have been from the pro-Bush point of view, my wife Kathleen felt that she had to respond. Here is the letter she wrote and submitted today. To.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/12.html#a182

Anger Mismanagement - April 12, 2003

Well, the kids and I recently saw the trailer for "Anger Management", and it looked like it might be funny. Because Becca really wanted to see it, I decided to take a chance and break my usual policy of "no Adam Sandler movies", and the whole family went to see it this afternoon. Well, this is one of those cases where the trailer contains just about every moment that was worth seeing in the movie. I walked out after less than 20 minutes, and Kathleen and the girls left about ten minutes...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/12.html#a181

Job opening at Mindreef - April 10, 2003

Hey, if you're a great UI developer with real experience writing applications with browser-based front ends, my company has a brand new job opening.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100130/2003/04/10.html#a180