May
31
Ick.
When I write a weblog entry, Radio “knows” what id it’s going to store that post as in its internal database.
If you already have an entry with that ID, it clobbers it.
Well, it sort of merges the two. Any field that is filled in in your ‘new’ post, will overwrite any in the ‘old’ post. [...]
May
31
RSS auto-discovery
Filed Under Wikis, Weblogs and Outliners | Leave a Comment
Now supported: If we can persuade existing weblog authors to insert this one line of code, and then get it into the default templates of Radio, Manila, and Movable Type, and we could make news aggregation an order of magnitude easier.
May
31
Using Hotmail
Filed Under Ecommerce | Leave a Comment
Out of curiosity, I tried to set up a hotmail account yesterday. They really go out of their way to make it difficult for you to sign up for a free account. Firstly, they told me that “Microsoft® .NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current [...]
May
31
Tony’s Gold Box
Filed Under Ecommerce | Leave a Comment
Amazon have a new surreal promotion tool - The Gold Box! Every 24 hours they fill my gold box with 5 special offers which I can only “buy now or pass forever” It then counts down 60 minutes, before which the offer disappears forever!
May
24
Amazon Restaurant Menus
Filed Under Ecommerce | Leave a Comment
Oooh. Amazon have started putting restaurant menus online. They have Boston, Chicago, NY, SF and Washington DC so far.
This is the sort of thing I’d have expected from Google (they’ve done it with mail-order catalogs), but not really from Amazon. They’re not selling anything - they don’t even charge the restaurants to be listed (yet?). [...]
May
24
Transfixion
Filed Under Life | Leave a Comment
hfb writes about the driving in Boston. I only had a car when I was in California, so I didn’t encounter the drivers in Boston. I did however encounter the parking. In South Boston everyone double parks. I even saw the occassional triple-parking. But one night a brave cop decided to start ticketing cars that [...]
May
23
Radio doesn’t seem to mind too much if you change the date of posts. It gets very confused though if they end up being out of order (a post with an earlier ID has a later date). In that case the calendar doesn’t update properly, and entries of individual days go weird. Thankfully you can [...]
May
23
White Hot Chocolates
Filed Under Life | Leave a Comment
I drank lots whilst in California and Boston. Starbucks serve them (although they’re not on the menu). No-where I know in Belfast does. This is a problem. (Although Roast can now do a hot chocolate with Orange - still no Mint though …)
May
23
I’m Back
Filed Under Etech | Leave a Comment
I’ve spent the last two weeks in Boston (visiting friends) and Santa Clara (at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I didn’t have my laptop with me, so couldn’t publish my weblog whilst I was away. I did write some entries though (either on paper, or in my head) and I’m going to try hacking Radio [...]
May
18
Driving in the US
Filed Under Life | Leave a Comment
I rented a car for the ET Conference. This was the first time I’ve ever driven outside the UK and Ireland, and it’s a strange experience. I’m not really sure whether the lanes here are narrower, or that the cars are wider, or that my perspective is confused by being on the wrong side of [...]