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I'll be off the air until Sunday night or Monday sometime as we head to Virginia. Enjoy the weekend!(9:09 AM) ¶

Friday, February 22, 2002

 
kuro5hin.org reports on an ad the Libertarian Party is sponsoring about the war on drugs and how it itself is the true problem.(10:57 PM) ¶

 
Went to dinner with Rox, James, and Sumi tonight at a local place in Cranston, RI: A Cullinary Affair. Fantastic little place if you hit these parts. Then had dessert at Gregg's. A nice little send-off...(10:42 PM) ¶

 
The movers are here and we are finished packing. Once they are done and all of this stuff is gone, what's left we have to pack up (mostly done already) and put into our two cars. Tomorrow we plop Jack in and head south. We stop at my sister's in New York where my Mother will be joining us for a small birthday gathering for me and then on Sunday we continue on from there to Virginia. We'll stay with the same friends we've been staying with for four months now for just three more nights. Then we begin the end of our move and this four month process we've been in.(8:57 AM) ¶

Thursday, February 21, 2002

 
We've been packing most of the day. Most of our stuff has been in storage since late October and yet we seem to have a ton of stuff here in Rhode Island. Tomorrow morning, the nice Irish men from Gentle Giant movers will arrive to take this stuff away to join the stuff in storage. I'm exhausted from all the schlepping of boxes and such. I'm so glad that the moving in part of this (still 10 days out) will involve no box schlepping on my part. Well, assuming that all boxes end up in the right rooms. Which is unlikely since most of them are not well labelled. OK, fine. You happy? I have more to schlep. Ugh.(10:59 PM) ¶

 
I Am A: Neutral Good Elf Bard Ranger


Alignment:
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered 'normal'.


Race:
Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently conccern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.


Primary Class:
Bards are the entertainers. They sing, dance, and play instruments to make other people happy, and, frequently, make money. They also tend to dabble in magic a bit.


Secondary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.


Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy ofNeppyMan (e-mail)

(10:09 PM) ¶

 
Anti-Matter captured(9:57 PM) ¶

 
photograph album: the fountains of rome. Why? Because we want to go back and can't...(9:23 PM) ¶

 
SatireWire | FBI to Issue 5-Day Terror Forecasts(9:08 PM) ¶

 
BBC News | EDUCATION | School airbrushes pupil's pink hair: "Ashley's stepfather Chris Andrews said: "We are fully behind Ashley's decision to have that colour of hair, we do not feel it's going to be detrimental to her education and her future plans to be a website designer.""

Hmmm... maybe if I dyed my hair pink, I'd get even more business in web design...(8:50 PM) ¶

 
All My FAQs Wiki: CSS FAQsA Wiki about CSS.(9:49 AM) ¶

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

 
Working with CSS - Introduction to CSS Layout from Apple's website.(5:03 PM) ¶

 
article archives :: Blast Sites with User CSS Sheets Some great techniques to test your site for alt tags, balance tags, and to ferret out any remaining FONT tags.(4:57 PM) ¶

Monday, February 18, 2002

 
The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, February 18, 2002: "If it's a fact that most blogs suck, it is neither a useful nor an interesting one. Unless, of course, you're writing a story about why blogs suck." Doc, once again, nails it.(5:20 PM) ¶

 
Ok, it's all fixed now. For now. Here's what I learned in the last 24 hours:

1. Moving Radio from one machine to another is a miserable task. You have to update all references to the path to your data in the myriad of places it exists. The included script to fix this (which I found out about belatedly) does not work properly with Radio and I did find someone who had updated it for Radio but it still did not solve the problems. In the end, Radio worked by nothing I could do would make the Manila/Blogger bridge tool work so I couldn't update my blogger blog at the same time any longer.
   
2. If you give up on this kind of venture and revert back to your older copy, any blog entries you make with the other copy are blown away entirely as the older copy simply sends up what it knows about. This is not entirely unexpected but it would be nice if the software noticed that there was stuff on the server it didn't know about and offered to transfer it down to your local database or at least warn you that it's going to blow it all away.
   
3. Sometimes upstreaming doesn't work and you have to kick it hard. As far as I can tell, I was having DNS issues getting to plant.blogger.com which was mucking up the entire upstreaming process. When I replaced that with an IP address (a temporarly solution) it worked again and my blogger site was being updated while the radio one wasn't. Quitting and restarting Radio and forcing an update by editing some entries finally got it working again.
   
4. Radio's purpose to make blogging easier for the masses has a long way to go. Once something goes wrong, you have to be a technical type to solve it. If I hadn't been a Frontier developer in days of yore and an all-around geek, I doubt I would have been able to fix the problems I had and would have had to reinstall from scratch. Not user friendly by a long shot.
   

Hey, don't get me wrong, I still like radio and am glad I paid for it. Doesn't mean I can't be critical...(1:28 PM) ¶

 
Yahoo! News - Pope Has Performed 3 Exorcisms, One Last September. Good to see he's keeping busy...(1:28 PM) ¶

 
Ok, it's all fixed now. For now. Here's what I learned in the last 24 hours:

1. Moving Radio from one machine to another is a miserable task. You have to update all references to the path to your data in the myriad of places it exists. The included script to fix this (which I found out about belatedly) does not work properly with Radio and I did find someone who had updated it for Radio but it still did not solve the problems. In the end, Radio worked by nothing I could do would make the Manila/Blogger bridge tool work so I couldn't update my blogger blog at the same time any longer.
   
2. If you give up on this kind of venture and revert back to your older copy, any blog entries you make with the other copy are blown away entirely as the older copy simply sends up what it knows about. This is not entirely unexpected but it would be nice if the software noticed that there was stuff on the server it didn't know about and offered to transfer it down to your local database or at least warn you that it's going to blow it all away.
   
3. Sometimes upstreaming doesn't work and you have to kick it hard. As far as I can tell, I was having DNS issues getting to plant.blogger.com which was mucking up the entire upstreaming process. When I replaced that with an IP address (a temporarly solution) it worked again and my blogger site was being updated while the radio one wasn't. Quitting and restarting Radio and forcing an update by editing some entries finally got it working again.
   
4. Radio's purpose to make blogging easier for the masses has a long way to go. Once something goes wrong, you have to be a technical type to solve it. If I hadn't been a Frontier developer in days of yore and an all-around geek, I doubt I would have been able to fix the problems I had and would have had to reinstall from scratch. Not user friendly by a long shot.
   

Hey, don't get me wrong, I still like radio and am glad I paid for it. Doesn't mean I can't be critical...(12:24 PM) ¶

 
I rolled back to the Radio on my laptop and gave up on moving it over to my desktop system for now. Now I wonder how Radio will react if and when it notices that updates happened to the Radio site that it did not make...

If you are reading this on raggedcastle.com, then we're back and updating on that site as well. There are entries on the Radio side that are not on the raggedcastle side but until further notice, both sites will be updated at the same time from here on out.(12:10 PM) ¶

 
Wow... Radio blew away all entries I made yesterday and this morning when I reverted to the laptop again. Not entirely unexpected which is why I copied the stuff I'd written that I wanted to keep. I'll get it back up here shortly.(12:09 PM) ¶

 
This weekends Missing Blog Entries.(12:09 PM) ¶

 
So, among the entries that got toasted are a number of rants on my part about radio being a bitch to move around. I moved it to my desktop and everything died. I updated all the path names and yet things still behaved very badly. I realized that Radio is not written to be a *good* OS X application. Being a UNIX system, the radio files should *not* be stored in /Applications/Radio Userland/ but rather in my home directory. This way, they can be referenced as ~/radio/whatever/ and if I move things to a new system, that will still work if I keep the relative path the same. And this is how UNIX systems do things. UNIX programs never store their configuration data in /usr/bin/ and so forth.(12:09 PM) ¶

 
Now all of my TCP streams are being closed unexpectedly. No clue what that means or what to do about it. I don't have time now to go search through the discussions and other tech support files at the Radio site. So, this has to sit until later. (I tried one more thing and it seems to have worked, a bit)(12:09 PM) ¶

 
Due to technical difficulties which are not worth going into, Webcrumbs will only be updated on the Radio site, not this site. So, follow that link for any weblog links for this week.

Really! I'm still updating, just not here.(10:26 AM) ¶