A Bit of Color
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I should give up and go to sleep

But I ran into one more thing to talk about. Over on the radio-dev list, Dave posted a link to a newbie needing some help. Right here I found the best decription of some of my Radio frustrations to date.

Out of the box, Radio is a wonderful, easy to use, weblogging tool. You can be up and running in seconds. And if all you care about is working on your blog and doing regular posts to it, you’ll never have any issues. But one of the cool things about Radio to me is that there is this whole scripting environment behind it. The only problem is, finding documentation on it. There are a few tutorials on the Radio home page, but there was nothing easily available that really explained the different parts of it. I kept feeling like I was seeing part of a big picture and it would never quite fully come into focus.

There is a lot written about what you can do with Radio and its language, UserTalk, but it is all reached through searching for things. Which, if you don’t have enough background on how it all works can be a bit daunting. In a lot of ways it reminds me of my early days with various MUD servers, specificly the ones like MOO. MOO is a MUD server where the core program handles network connections and interpreting the MOO programming language (I’m not too sure of the internals and may be simplifying it, but that’s the gist of it). So everything from the concept of what is a character to what is a location is programmed within the database for a world. Once again, there’s a lot of stuff out there to work with, but the only way to figure it out is to sit down and really take the whole thing apart, or to have a really good guide.

Radio needs a better initial guide. Something that gives a more general view of how it all fits together. My guess is that it already exists, I’ve just missed the link someplace, or haven’t come across it. I think the current tutorials are actually great, they have helped in my understanding of things, but there’s still more background information I crave. I responded to the intial mail to the mailing list about this with these thoughts. One thing I like about the whole Userland crew is that they seem very receptive to peoples comments. They really are aware of what their users thing (at least as long as they voice their opinions).

One last thing

I thought Angel last night was amazing. There were parts of the episode that just made me shiver. And I found myself cursing Joss for somehow making me care about a few characters who I had formerly found to be silly and trivial.

Once again, we find ourselfs

Up again for a moment in the middle of the night. It is weird how often this seems to happen. I was having kind of funky dreams as I woke up. Last night as I went to sleep I was reading the translation of the Utena manga. It is interesting because it is yet another retelling of the Utena story. This one gives us a bit more history at the beginning instead of thrusting us right into the story as the TV series or the movie do. Anyways, I seem to remember my dream being visually like the manga, almost like I was dreaming in a drawings. Very cool, but different.

I played around with my Lomo tonight. I had been reading about how someone had just gotten hers fixed and she was trying it out and listening for a second ‘click’. When i read this I paused a moment. Second click? It all sounded like one to me when I took pictures. Since I didn’t have any film in my lomo at the moment I was able to fool around for a bit. When you set the camera to ‘A’, it keeps the shutter open for as long as it thinks it needs for the picture based on the amount of light. To test this I put my hand in front of the lens and took a picture and sure enough, click (pause) click. I feel like I suddenly have more understanding of this cool little thing I bought a while back. (And I hope I don’t sound like too much an idiot to all you other lomo users out there).

Okay, now that I’ve rambled enough about my night I’m going to put the computer aside and fall back into sleepyland. Goodnight.

Teacher Madness

The Guardian reports a teacher cleared of sex with boys.  I think the best part of the article was the part where “She said she wore a see-through shirt and black bra to the party, that she could be a flirt and should have avoided compromising situations with her pupils”.  Wow. I never had any teachers like that. Though come to think of it, I don’t think I had many (any?) teachers at all that I would have wanted to see in something like that.

If you are a raver, this could save your life

I’ve been a raver for years.  I think once you become one, you never fully stop being one (even if you don’t go out quite as often).  But now I’ve found that raves are actually All-night-dance-parties of DEATH.  Damn,  I never knew!

Sifl. And. Olly. Sifl and Olly Shooow

My copy of Sifl and Olly – Season Three (The Lost Episodes) arrived today.  I can’t wait to get home and watch it.  The box even says it has the video for United States of Whatever, one of my favorite songs from the series.

Hungry

I’m going nuts and am not going to have time to go out and get anything.  Time for the joy of delivery food.  I just need to find someplace that takes credit cards.

Mug After
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Mug Before
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