Sunday, April 28, 2002

Right now, I'm loving Marc Barrot's IO Renderer.. hey this is what I wanted.. Marc r00lz! I find myself hacking around in the guts of the Radio system. Dave Winer should write a book on this thingy.. I think this has a potential to go sky high (Radio I mean). I'm thinking I'll create a separate category for my "rendered outlines" and put stuff like various idea files and howtos over there. Maybe I should put some Zope howto's there as well? I mean what the heck! Maybe it would be a good place for people to come and peruse my archive of various howto's. I'm seriously thinking of contributing to the Plone documentation effort (once 1.0 comes out) and actually using it on tingoo.com as well. Purchased the license for the Radio app today. Now I'm wondering what I'd have to do to Xport it to an iBook if I ever end up getting one. Got taxes done today.. yaay! My accountant told me they were taking off too many taxes from my paychecks! but he quite kindly got them back for me (sort of). Now I can payoff the RRSP loan!   8:37:38 PM    comment [] I guess the developers of Mozilla have never used the "download" manager themselves! Now its very simple, I download something for viewing, but once I've viewed it, I might want to permanently store it. So I go to the Download Manager which is clearly saving the file in a temp area. There is NO WAY for me to store something that I've downloaded already, and is already stored in a temp place. Is it too much to ask -- and why must I ask? for something so obvious? -- that the file be "saveable" from the so-called download manager? I think the problem lies in the "disconnect" that exists between opensource developers and the actual users of a product. I've said this before, and I'll say it again, albiet in politer terms: The opensource developers need to get out of their shell and look at things from a user's perspective. We realize you're doing everyone a great favor by creating a product that is "free". But at the same time, you need to behave exactly as a for-profit corporation would act to respond to their customers. As a matter of fact, that's where the distinction lies between for-profit and "free" software. The capacity of the developers to bridge the gap b/w the development effort and the end-users. This is no doubt a sacrifice on their part, but, personally, what is the point of a sacrifice if you don't do it properly? If you write off your users as "lazy" who could just as easily go to the temp directory and manually copy the file, then you're as guilty as the "Mega Corp" who thinks they know what's best for the users. The difference might be that users are shielded from the condescending attitudes of the Mega-Corp-Developers, while they bear the full brunt of the Open Source developer! Just my 2cents worth! 7:46:34 PM    comment [] 4/28/02; 10:20:42 AM by AEM -- Woke up wishing it was Hawaaii Something about Toronto Weather is not sitting too well with me .. Yesterday it was a beautiful day, but I was couped up inside a small room that Mimi has rented in cabbage town. She chose a green color that dries a little darker than what I would like, but it reminded me of how our house used to be in KotAdu. Mom used to like these pastels in the 70's I suppose. But I digress! Today I woke up with all the balconeys banging because of the wind and the rain beating up on the metal.. I wished it was much warmer, and better yet, in hawaii.. there I wouldn't mind the rain that much! Listening to cake (Short skirt long jacket...) I wanna girl with a mind like diamond.. ...eyes that burn like cigarrettes.. ...I wanna girl with a short skirt ... and a loooooooooong jacket.. ..who uses the machete to cut thru red tape.. she's fast.. thorough.. and sharp as a tack! ... loooong jackett! 10:37:46 AM    comment [] I don't feel like Instant Outlining right now.. tooooo tu tu tufruuump too weeiooon.. this soundtrack rules Am I a lamo? 10:14:56 AM    comment [] Playing the "Blade soundtrack" by New Order Confusion. 10:10:35 AM    comment [] Just downloaded and installed Mozzilla RC 1.0. Not too shabby! pretty fast too! I'll switch to it, whenever.. seems to handle the blogger admin interface better than Opera. I really like the "mouse motion" commands in Opera (or whatever they call them). I've gotten so used to them that I find myself doing it in IE, or now, in Mozzilla. Haven't had time to play with Ruby! I wish FilePile had some kind of an API a'la Google. But I was thinking that it shouldn't be too hard to write a Ruby script to do a scheduled fetch of the main page and recording the number of users on it. Then I could do a nice graph of user activity across the week or something.. that would be nice. But I guess Torrez could do that pretty easily. 10:07:35 AM    comment [] Here is an idea! Why not start being more bloglike and start adding some news and stuff. But what I think about that is that it is my ideas that maybe a little different. but since not a whole hell of a lot of people read this thingy then why put stuff here. But sometimes I've found links at other's blogs? One nice place I found was Paolo's Weblog from Scripting news. So maybe someone will find this. Some of the Pilers are are avid bloggers, I personally like the kooky style of E.B.A at Ugly Fat Kid, so there, I just added a bunch of links. Its a cold and windy morning in Toronto.. Helped Mimi with painting a little bit. Got Ahmer's call that he needed help too. So had to scoot out of painting around 5. Should go to the tax guy today. blah blah blah... 9:59:48 AM    comment []

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