January 24, 2003
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:58:37 GMT
ahhh...its the email that I get that makes all of this so much fun. Scott swears that its spelled "knarley" and even funnier, I just had someone drop me a note asking me what a mock spammer was. *Ahem*. I was using it in a verb sense, not in the adjective sense. Made me laugh though. Scott also recommended that I cut back on the trolling a little bit (it sounded much more threatening when he said it...) which makes some sense - I do need some snooze.January 23, 2003
You can tell its a slow day when...
I have nothing better to do than arrange fights between readers and mock spammers. Apparently there are two other people that read this blog as well - Scott, meet Joe. Joe, meet Scott. Joe and Scott, meet Dan and a bunch of Dan's co-workers. Scott - Dan thinks have no taste in blogs and Joe said he'd rough you up unless you lightened up...or something like that. I suppose that all of this is better than ranting about Radio.Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:34:36 GMT
Scott says my blog sucks and that no one reads it. thhppppt to Scottie-o.January 04, 2003
Sun, 05 Jan 2003 03:59:37 GMT
test via remote access - this should work with no problems - thanks for the motivation Brett. :)December 01, 2002
Sun, 01 Dec 2002 17:42:31 GMT
Today's to-do list:
Everything closes in five and a half hours....lets see how much this I can get done.
- Go to office, organize files, throw out eighteen million drafts of the whois and transfers TF reports.
- Go back to office and grab the envelope containing the receipts for all the expenses that you haven't filed for the last year.
- Go to Walmart and see if you can find a strap to replace the one for the fake Rolex that you bought in China.
- Go to supermarket and buy a bunch of stuff for lasagna.
- Go back to office and grab the recipe that you forgot to pickup off the VPN printer the first time you were there.
- Go to Sears and see if they have replacement dinner plates for our set.
- Go to bank, make deposit.
- Go home, make Lasagna, do Garfield impersonation, watch Alias.
November 20, 2002
November 19, 2002
Radio 16, Me 1
So interestingly, it appears that my earlier whinings about Radio munging posts was simply me being short-sighted ;) Now while I still think that this is one of the most complicated pieces of software out there (theoretically magnificent, practically unbearable), I'm beginning to get the hang of things - but let me say this one more time in a slightly different way.I used to run a BBS that ran on software called FeatherNet, a PCBoard clone. It rendered templates into screens and required the use of a ton of macros. Radio brings back those memories all too vividly. It makes me feel like a Sysop. I hate feeling like a Sysop. Everything takes too long. Ever try and dump macros into an ANSI editor? sigh...
Anyways, this rant is brought to you for a very specific reason. If I can use the HTML editor built into Outlook Express to my satisfaction and post via email, I might just give up on trying to modify the innards of the buzzard to my liking.
And if Dave Winer or anyone else at Userland reads this, I think you've all done an excellent job. I paid for your software. Don't let my whining obscure the fact that I paid for it. People that really hate software don't whine about it, rather, they don't pay for it. :)November 17, 2002
Radio for Dummies...
Well, hopefully this self-imposed challenge doesn't soak up much more time. I've come to the conclusion that Radio is interminably disorganized. While doing simple things like posting is well thought-out, doing something that could/should be equally simple like changing to a custom template is...well, quite frankly, a pain-in-the-ass. There seems to be references, tags, schema's scattered everywhere hither, thither and yon and no real centralized way of navigating through them in order to make the necessary changes as you go. Instead, you kind of have to guess and create a mental roadmap of all of the dependencies that also need to be updated.
The current implementation is akin to Word requiring you to update both your document and the true-type binary in order to change the layout of a document.<sigh> I know they are trying real hard, but, eesh, its not exactly user friendly at this point. To paraphrase Bob Frankston who call me for technical support one day not all that long ago, "I don't need Radio for dummies, I need Radio for Ross."
Anyways, there's a few more navigation tweaks that I want to make, but they will have to wait until later today (hah - now if that's isn't a recipe for procrastination, I've never seen one...)
November 16, 2002
Dem deres a fightin design mista...
The blog is officially under construction. Not only am I tired of looking like a real dweeb with the mostly out of the box template that I am currently using, I'm also getting jealous of how good Brett's blog is starting to look. I can't put my finger on what he's done, but I like it.
Time to raise the bar.
November 05, 2002
oBwifiblogreference
In some parts of the apartment, the WiFi tends to get sluggish. I've found that squeezing the Aironet card between my thumb and forefinger tends to help the packets find their source more readily. I guess that my body acts as some sort of wet antenna that improves the reception of the card.Neat.
October 20, 2002
Minor changes...
Moved Radio from the desktop to the laptop today. If the SMTP publishing feature wasn't so flaky, I could probably just live with that - but given that it periodically crashes the upstreaming requiring a relaunch of Radio, I didn't want to live it to chance that the system would stay up during extended absences. I'd rather take the entire kit along with me and cross my fingers that the Internet access at my destination would be good enough to support some of the upstreaming functions. SMTP posting isn't that great anyways - no support for headlines or cat streaming...which basically means that every time that I post something via SMTP, I still have to sit down at the console and edit it manually...sigh. Hopefully this is a better arrangement. The laptop seems to be a little bit underpowered when it comes to rendering the entire site, but it hasn't been too bad on a post-by-post basis...
Anyways, the deed is done - now if I can just figure out a way to blog straight from my new e740 :) (yes, the blackberry is dead. Long live the blackberry.)
August 30, 2002
August 28, 2002
Moved Crap to Make Room for Stuff.
Created a new cat today for some of the pop culture things that cross my path every once in a while. It let me get some of the crap out of this category (which leaves me more room for crap like this entry ;)
August 16, 2002
Radio eats Link. Radio 2, Links 0
Apologies for the broken links below. For some reason, when I post stories via email, the links get re-written in some cases, thus obviously breaking them. I will fix them manually when I get home tonight.
Update: Originally referred to links on the home page. I must say that this is pretty annoying that Radio keeps munging links submitted via email in this way...
August 12, 2002
? The web's schizophrenic little brother ?
If you've wondered why I've started putting bracketed question marks in the middle of my sentences, click on one of them one of these days and you might answer your own question [?]. The question marks lead back to a Blockstackers project called "Everything2" which is essentially a community built, self-referencing outliner, idea-sharer, definition provider...thing...
Check it out, its pretty neat.
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:24:39 GMT
Bizarre...two days of stories didn't make it to the main page of the blog (even though I diligently added them all and they showed up in my Home screen)...then, they disappeared even from there and are now completely lost. Weird.August 07, 2002
July 30, 2002
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:35:49 GMT
I just realized that I named my blog very similarly to Jamie Love's "Random Bits" mailing list. The two are obviously not related - "Random Bytes" simply stems from the domain name that the blog runs under...the "Random" part means just that - no obvious theme for the content here other than items that interest me...Test for Thomas...
Thomas - this story should have the permalink enabled in the RSS feed. Let me know if I've missed the boat...