Month: July 2003

Radio and Safari – A Winning Combination

I’ve always been throughly disgusted with Internet Explorers sluggish response when used in conjunction with Radio Userland. I’m much happier with the combination of Safari and Radio. Window redraws are much quicker, sometimes instantaneous. This may not be news to anybody but me, but its been a long time since I’ve used Radio this much.

Meet The Duckleone Family

I have a tip for anyone trying to give up TV cold turkey – buy some ducks. Not that I’m giving up TV, but I can sit for hours and watch these characters. My wife started calling one of them “Sunny” because of a bit of orange on his/her bill. I changed that a bit and named the rest of them after characters from “The Godfather.” Meet Vito, Michael, Santino (“Sonny/Sunny”), Don Barzini, Luca Brasi, and Connie. We’re still not sure about all of their sexes, so we may have some name changes in the future. Fortunately there are plenty…

I got Trackback working on my Manila site , though I doubt it will generate a lot of links; not too many other people out there in weblog-land i

I got Trackback working on my Manila site, though I doubt it will generate a lot of links; not too many other people out there in weblog-land into Hawaiian music. It could get interesting when Trackback comes to RadioUserland. I love testing new features when Userland ships them, and hopefully will be able to get more consistent about doing it here. One thing I’d like to figure out – if I can create a category in RU, and whever a post is made to that category, that it automatically creates a new news item on my Manila site. I’ve had…

Thanks for the link and comment , Dave.

Thanks for the link and comment, Dave. Maybe you can help clarify how much of this end users like me needs to understand. I sense the disconnect, too, but I’m not a developer. Maybe I qualify for power-user status, and have hacked away on Frontier and RU enough to make it work with Hawaiian language, my major concern. I’m busy teaching, designing web courses, finishing my MA and trying to get some guitar chops back. While I don’t mind getting my hands dirty with the tech stuff, how deeply does Joe-Average-User like me need to get involved with this issue,…

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