In response to this post on Paolo's website, here's my list of wishes for Radio (in order of importance):

#1– Like TypePad, add an easy way for me to list what I'm reading and what I'm listening to–all linked to my Amazon Associate ID–to allow visitors to buy something and I get a commission. If nothing else, the groovy book/album covers are great. See my TypePad test site.

#2–Easy remote hosting/domain hosting. FTP is fine, but I'd like the referrer rankings to work outside of Userland's servers. Include in this feature the ability to run Radio on a computer at home and post easily, just by checking a box. I'm doing it now, but I had to do this.

#3–Alternate servers for comments, chosen from a drop down list on the pref page. Apple provides three time servers for all of it's customers world wide. It would help during times when servers are overloaded.

#4–Auto-generation of aggregator “home page”: What is this? Well, you set Radio to subscribe to sources. It generates a *publicly* accessible page on your site so you can view the content.

#5–Aggregator can import OMPL files (like from NNW) to allow easy additions of subscriptions

#6–Theme packs for sale

#7–Theme building functions

Update: Here's another short list. Cristian, I'm with you on HTML. I can do it, but I bought Radio to skip it.

Here's a short post about Hydra's use in the real world of meetings and multiple Macs…

My 18-year-old son was channel surfing Lifetime Televsion (known here as PVN, the Professional Victims Network — All Victims, All the Time) today and came across a make-over show.

“Hey Dad, come here!” he says. “This is a great show. They take these ugly people and, in only 30 minutes, turn them into fully-accessorized ugly people.”

Wow. What a concept.

LifetimeTV. Television for Women. And this is better than “The Man Show” how? [b.cognosco]

Sean Gallagher's trip to church is worth reading:

The experience was everything I don't like about the Catholic church all rolled up into one miserable service.

This is one of the reasons why I fear “organized” religion. Yes, I am Christian and believe in God and Jesus Christ. Sometimes, I don't want to attend church–Sean's experience isn't new, different or unusual. If you want a different perspective on your faith, pick a random church in your town/city/suburb of the same faith and attend a service. Leave your comments here.

Update: Sean's permalink isn't cooperating with Radio's trackback. Here's the trackback URL for Radio to catch.

I woke up this morning to find that my RSS reader had pulled a list of verbs changed in Radio.root–trackback is here! I posted a couple items, worked out adding the macro to the item template and everything is set. It's fast, and most of all it works. The pref page's help text is detailed enought and makes sense to all readers.

Thanks, Userland! Another $40 well spent.

Update: I found that trackback URL autodiscovery works fine.

Update 2: Jake posted the same info on his weblog. Hey Jake, can Radio handle more than one trackback URL?

Mark's wit and humor come through in this remarkable (yet sadly predictable) story about his recent experience with a Windows XP reinstall. While no operating system is without it's pitfalls, driver management is the worst on Windows products–usually a chicken and egg syndrome.

By the way Mark, I carry a 3Com 3C905BTX PCI NIC around, “just for these sort of emergencies”.

Looks like someone's solved one of my major issues with using Manila as a content management system for commerical websites:

Radio/Frontier/Manila working with E-xact WebService

John revised (thanks!) the E-xact WebService to get around the problems (here and here) that we were experiencing when trying to make the E-xact e-commerce Web Service work with Radio/Frontier/Manila.

John simply removed the need for a nested transaction. And presto, now the E-xact WebService works with Radio/Manila/Frontier!

To make this a product all you need (I think) is the E-xact Web Services SDK and a SOAP client that works over https (I think Macrobyte's client TLS implementation for Radio/Frontier/Manila should work but I haven't tested it. It is FREE however).

Email support@e-xact.com if you are interested in using the E-xact Web Services SDK.

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[E-xact Developer News]

Original post.

I contemplating buying a copy of Frontier from Userland and running it as a core web design tool. I want to load it on a server and use it's environment to script and render pages. I like the idea that a development environment can be a web design tool. I have three customers right now that want simple, elegant websites (insert CSS here) but want the flexibility to update content on their own. Manila sounds like the answer, allowing the use of technologies like RSS.

Comments, ideas?

Salsa Rossa

This is a recipe from Rafaela, the mother of one of Caroline's students. Serve thinly spread on toast as a starter or party snack with red wine.

Ingredients

• 400gm tomato puree
• 10 fresh bay leaves
• handful of parsley
• 50gm anchovy paste
• 10 capers
• good splash virgin olive oil
• 1 clove garlic
• pinch salt

Preparation

1. Finely chop the parsley, bay leaves, capers and garlic
2. Add everything else
3. Mix well
4. Chill

Notes

You want a slightly sloppy consistency – it's nicely spreadable after being in the fridge a while. Keeps for ages in the fridge. The oil will probably solidify, just give it a good stir before serving. It does seem a lot of bay leaves, but it works. Dry ones are ok, but the fresher the better, same with the parsley. It's obviously based on what you can get from an Italian garden (and supermarket), the only essential ingredients really are the tomato puree and bay leaves. In the north of England you might want to substitute the olive oil and anchovy paste with lard and a sardine.

[Raw Blog]

A Kohler sink that's not a sink…

Justin waxes eloquent about Kohler's sexy, outre and somewhat impractical new line of plumbing fixtures:

…The sink was round and they've proven it flat. They removed soaking from the function of this sink, but when's the last time I soaked something in a sink? Actually, they do have some facility for soaking with the Puristô Wet Surface Lavatory (K-2313) – they sell an optional Purist Hand Basin for $160.

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(Thanks, Justin!) [Boing Boing Blog]

thanks, BoingBoing!