I have now added a “printer-friendly version” link in the footer below each Betalogue entry. The link takes you to a page where the corresponding blog entry is formatted using a printer-friendly layout and printer-friendly character and paragraph formatting. The font size specified for these printer-friendly pages is 11 points. Unfortunately, Safari suffers from a […]
The move to “cruft-free” URLs for blog pages (i.e. URLs with no user-hostile content) appears to be a hot topic these days. Reading an item such as Mark Pilgrim’s “Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type“, however, along with the many, many comments and feedback items listed under it, is giving me a bit of a headache. […]
The C|Net technology web site has a good article on the on-going “battle” between the existing Dave Winer-approved RSS syndication standard and the new syndication standard known as “Echo”, “Pie”, or other temporary code names. I don’t know enough about the technology to really be able to discuss it. This blog is available as an […]
Well, I must admit I am thoroughly confused about the distinctions between BLURB, BODY and MORE in pMachine, and have had to ask for help. Hopefully this will be clarified soon and I’ll be able to provide a blog structure that makes a bit more sense… Again, thanks for bearing with me during this transition. […]
Please note that I have given up on Radio UserLand and moved to a new blogging system called pMachine. This means a number of changes, which I will EXPLAIN in more detail in future posts on the new blog. Most importantly, here are the new addresses: The new home page for Betalogue is: http://www.latext.com/pm/betalogue (No […]
Welcome to my blog’s new home.
This is just a note to let people know that UserLand’s comments server appears to be down (has been unaccessible from here since July 9), and it causes my blog page to LOAD much slower on the Web, because your browser desperately attempts to LOAD the comments counts from UserLand’s servers and is not getting […]
As a very, very, very frustrated user of Radio UserLand, it’s becoming harder and harder for me to read Dave Winer’s pseudo-essays about where the software industry is today and where it is going. Here’s the latest one: “Who will pay for software?” by Dave Winer, DaveNet First of all, anyone who expresses sympathy for […]
This is really getting to be a bit much. These days Radio fails on me almost every single day. The symptoms are always the same: for some reason, all of a sudden FTP upstreaming ceases to work properly. I post new items to my weblog and the Radio server processes them locally just fine, but […]
It seems that, every week, Radio finds some new way to cause me grief. Today, I wanted to find out why my local backup had not been updated since Saturday. (Today’s Monday.) There is absolutely no control in Radio’s prefs over when the backups take place and no way to force a backup manually now. […]
I am quite a bit frustrated with Radio today. I frequently include small pictures in my blog entries and use Radio’s MyPictures tool for it. Normally I just have to transfer the picture I want to upload to a special folder that Radio checks every 5 seconds, and it automatically uploads it to my server, […]
On the whole, I’m pretty pleased with Radio UserLand as a blogging tool. For the most part, it just works, and its limitations are not too annoying at this point. (I’d like to be able to handle comments locally on my server, and I’d like to have a proper server-based search engine on my own […]
Terrific interview of Brent Simmons, developer of NetNewsWire and other Mac OS X applications, by John Gruber: “Interview: Brent Simmons” by John Gruber, Daring Fireball You don’t need to be a software developer yourself. It’s an excellent read for anyone interested in blogging, RSS, Mac OS X, user interface, etc. Check it out! (It’s long, […]
When I went to CHECK my own web log with NetNewsWire this morning (I am still not comfortable enough with Radio to be confident that it always does everything properly as expected, and it seems that I’m justified in this), I found that my RSS feed had not been updated since Saturday, even though I […]
After I published my blog item on outstanding issues with Radio UserLand the other day, I got feedback indicating that it was possible to use the quotation mark symbol (“) in item titles, as long as you “escaped” it by inserting a backslash () before each occurrence of it (which is supposed to tell the […]