I agree with Annie! ... It may be a little hard to open your mouth the first time, but let me tell you something. As soon as you start talkin, writing, posting, you will begin to have more to say. People will take what you say seriously. What you say, can make a difference. ... Besides that, you will start to enjoy it along with the rest of us.

Radio Trial - give it a KICK!.

We need to get more people posting consistently. I'm trying to convince Heather that she has worthwhile stuff to post, but, as you can see by her lack of NEWS, I haven't been successful. Perhaps we should begin a heated debate or an intense discussion, only to be continued via this format... something intriguing to get people more active and involved.

When we spread this, I think it will be very important to begin it by stimulating responses of new participants. Once you get rolling, it's much easier. The first post was definitely the most difficult. Perhaps we could prompt people for posts with questions? Maybe we could have some sort of dialogue session? Pass a "posting stick" rather than the talking stick? I know we're low on numbers, so perhaps these concerns are unwarrented. I'll keep my daily postings coming as promised, even if the are sparse in content as this one is =)

[Annie's Weblog]

While I am thinking about it, I just thought I would pass along this little bit of information.

A computer program is a complex bundle of instructions like a patient is a complex bundle of all kinds of things. Occasionally the patient needs surgery to remove something bad or to add something good like a new hip. We sometimes upgrade our software and, like surgery on a human, we must have all of our instruments and our team in place. ... Still, things go wrong.

If something goes wrong with software upgrades, we are lucky, we only lose some information we have already set into the computer.

We must minimize the effects of an upgrade gone wrong. Backup! Whenever we do something to the guts of our computers or our computers software. Backup!

I am working on a Radio tool that will backup all the important parts of Radio automatically, but in the meantime it is a good idea to save a copy of your Radio folder, every once in a while.

That means about once a week to me, AND right before you do surgery on your program.

RadioExpress.

Mike Krus's first Radio Userland "extension". I wanted to be able to blog things I found around the web without having to copy/paste from that page to the R8 edit form. Blogger has a cool bookmarklet to do that. ManilaExpress also does that for Manila.

However, R8's default form editor does not support receiving default text via external forms. So I changed it and repackaged it in the form of a new R8 page. It comes with it's own bookmarklet which you can easily install in your navigator's toolbar.