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About warwick

I manage a team of professional technical consultants for a Fortune 100 company. I like clever uses of technology whether it's in a data center or the kitchen of my house.

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In the NY Times, and widely syndicated, Bernard Weinraub says: “A senior editor at The New Republic has published a column on the Internet that deplores the violence in the film 'Kill Bill' and criticizes Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax, which released the film, and Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company, as 'Jewish executives' who 'worship money above all else.'”

@import /gems/warwick-radio.css

BloggerCon, Radio

I pulled the CSS from the main Radio template and put it in a separate
file, hoping to cut the amount of KB I'm transferring.  I've been
talking to my webhost provider about the amount of traffic lately and
we've come up with some easy solutions.  I”m hoping to move my
images and enclosures to a separate server on a different piece.

Frontier, the out-of-date Definitive Guide

BloggerCon, Radio

I've been reading Matt Neuberg's “Frontier, the Definitive Guide” on and off, trying to learn Radio and Frontier's UserTalk language.

I'm on page 42, for those of you who might have it. In fact, go get it, flip to same page. I'll wait

Done? Great. Here's the deal:

Matt says that if I write a script in an outline, then select it and paste it into an empty wptext window, it will render the script with the correct braces and such. See Example 4-5 if you are following along.

Well, in Radio 8.0.8, it won't do that. Yes, it's been 5 years since Matt and O'Reilly did the deed, but shouldn't that always work? Does anyone out there know why? Does it matter?

Side note: anyone recommend a better “How to learn UserTalk” book/doc?

About the Interviews

BloggerCon

Note about interviews:

In the spirit of weblogging, I've presented them unedited. I talked to Chris Lydon at BloggerCon and he mentioned that he sometimes edits the “uhs” and “umms” out of his interviews so the “flow is better”. I'm not a professional, so I won't present my content like that.

I conducted these interviews as research for two articles I'm writing for my local business newspaper. They were not intended to be scripted in any way and those interviewed we're asked on the spot, no prep work. The notable exception was Adam; I asked his permission earlier in the afternoon.

Interview from BloggerCon (with enclosure)–Adam Curry

BloggerCon

Interview five is the final one, and I saved the best for last. Adam Curry took a few minutes to talk RSS and weblogs from the international perspective. It was great to meet him and break the “glass wall” that viewers have with television personalities.

Adam has grown past his MTV days, returning to his roots: a techie with a tinkering streak. He started when young, building AM and FM radio sets using kits, graduating to pirate radio, then MTV and starting mtv.com.

This interview was outside Norton's Woods at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Interview is enclosed


Link to audio file

Interview from BloggerCon (with enclosure)–Phil Wolff

BloggerCon

Interview four is with Phil Wolff, writer of a klog apart and technology consultant. I had a chance to speak with him at the after-con party also. Phil's was one of the first weblogs I read (after Adam Curry and Dave Winer) which made it a little extra special.

This interview was in the beautiful but noisy Norton's Woods at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Please disregard the background noise.

Interview is enclosed

Link to audio file