Rene Descartes: “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” [Quotes of the Day]

I don’t care what your reason is. I still haven’t heard a good one for changing your name to something like GoVeg.com.

As PETA’s youth projects specialist, GoVeg.com —“GoVeg” to friends, family, and coworkers—spends her days talking to high school and college audiences around the country. Her former moniker would occasionally stir others to blandly comment, “You spell ‘Karin’ with an ‘i’ instead of an ‘e’? Interesting.” Now when GoVeg.com introduces herself to others, their eyes grow wide, their heads cock to the side, and they soon find themselves deep in conversation about why they should, well, go veg. [GoVeg.com]

Joe Jennet is having a lot of the same types of issues with two posts today concerning it and I have to say I agree with his thoughts completely. I think the biggest issue for me was really the lack of responsiveness by Userland. Both lack of response to issues with Radio and lack of response to what was going on with the blogging world.

I think for some people, Radio is just fine. I think if you are someone who just wants to put up a blog and post things to it regularly and you don’t care too much about how the whole thing looks, it is fine. It’s also fine if you have a lot of time to figure out how it does everything, because the documentation just plain sucks (maybe it has gotten better now, but it wasn’t that great when I was using it). I found the whole system of how templates work in Radio to be very cumbersome and hard to work with. Especially compared to Blogger and Movable Type.

My other big issue with Radio is that the program itself is really only half of the system. It’s a blogging client with lots of very cool functionality that most users will never use half of. I always wished that Userland would have released some kind of plugin type package for Apache. They released the community stuff for Radio, but that would have required me buying another license for it and installing it on my G3 and making that my web server, which is not what I wanted to do. In the end, I don’t know that I’d say Radio sucks, but I know that I don’t think it is living up to its potential.

On the other hand, Movable Type was quite easy to set up and the technical support I’ve received from them is wonderful (I did donate $50 to get support and two update codes). There are definite things I think they can do to improve their initial setup (I do still need to send that feedback to them after all I’ve written here about it), but overall my experience has been much better than with Radio.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” [Quotes of the Day]

Whew. It’s been a busy weekend so I didn’t get to watch as much as I’d hoped I would. I did get to catch a few really good things though. Specifically Naruto, Wolf’s Rain, and Scrapped Princess. Details after the link (for those who don’t want to be spoiled).

Just a week ago or so I got email from my old boss Spud (yes, we all called him Spud). He’d wondered what was up with me and searched for ‘snooze’ and found me. You have to love how good the internet is for finding old contacts. So when I got home from running some errands today I looked up someone I used to work with back at Connecticut Bank & Trust and surprisingly enough found out he’s still in the area. So I fired him off an email, hopefully I’ll hear something back.

There’s still a few people I’d love to be able to find again. Anyone know my old coffee buddy Linda Quintiliani?

So last night there was a birthday gathering over at my friend Ethan’s place. He hadn’t thrown a party there in ages and so I had been looking forward to it all week. Unfortunately, yesterday and last night it was insanely humid and Ethan’s place was hot, even with two air conditioners running. After just a short while there I felt my heart racing, which isn’t good. I lasted about an hour and had to leave. It was pretty annoying and I was quite grumpy. Even once I was home it took a good hour or two for me to get back to normal. Blah.

On the plus side I got up early this morning, had a nice breakfast over at Rosebud and it’s beautiful out. Humidity is down to 44%, which is great. Life feels much nicer this morning.

John Andrew Holmes: “Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.” [Quotes of the Day]

Me and 100% humidity don’t do well together.

So I was watching Loki and Skoll just showed up. Loki explains that Hati and Skoll chase the moon and the sun. And eclipses happen when one of them swallows the one they are chasing. So my question is this: When the eclipse is over does that mean that the wolf coughed it up? Or that it made a very quick trip through its digestive system?