Saturday, February 09, 2002

[SJL's Radio Weblog] Planet Organics Just learned about Planet Organics -- they provide weekly delivery of organic produce to homes in the San Francisco Bay Area -- and, soon, Niman Ranch meat products. 10:45:33 PM

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Dave wants to bootstrap into .Net?  I'd recommend the following as a place to start reading.  Note the use of SOAP headers, GUIDs, and attributes on elements (a dead giveaway that document style processing is intended).  I'm pleased to see that Ken Hagler is able to make the conceptual leap from "all the gibberish on that service information page into a SCNS call" when faced with a simple request, but if you want my two cents, this won't scale to more complex requests.  My two cents on what that the next inch or the next cable to hoist in the bootstrap can still be found here.  That doesn't get you all the way, but does take you in the right direction.  Baby steps. 10:28:05 PM

[Slashdot] One Runtime To Bind Them All 10:25:19 PM

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Simon Fell wonders how they're going to handle notifications without the DIME/TCP goo.  You might find the answer here.  Hint: look at the introduction to section 7 then go into section 7.4.  Oh, and section 6 may be of interest to SCNS fans. 10:22:32 PM

[The New York Times: Opinion] Still a Mystery: Nazi Germany's Atomic Bomb Failure. Why did German physicists, who were among the best in the world, make so little progress on an atomic weapon compared with their counterparts in the United States? nice summary of the controversy 7:08:23 PM

[The New York Times: National] Tiny Town Looms Big on U.S. Map as No. 1 Source of Disputed Painkiller. Grover, N.C., has become the nation's biggest source of the painkiller OxyContin, with a doctor who prescribes the drug at the center of controversy. 4:24:55 PM

With a little poking, I was able to find the function that put newAggregator stories in to the weblogPost form and change it to format the stuff just the way I like it -- source in brackets at the front.   Easy.  I did it by looking at the URL that brought me to the Post form from the newsAggregator and noting the arguments, one of which is 'idStory'.   Then I pulled up Radio and used the search tool on Radio.root to find instances of 'idStory'.  Third instance I found was the right function -- system.verbs.builtin.radio.macros.weblogPostForm; Fifth was the reference that counted. Save, compile, and Voila! 10:09:45 AM

[Dictionary.com Word of the Day] furbelow furbelow... funny.  I friend asked me to suggest a 5 to 9 letter word for a belt buckle.   He eventually chose 'PLADA'.   but then comes this... if you're going to make a bad joke on a belt buckle, this is a better bad joke. 9:59:26 AM