Congrats and much whuffie to Cory Doctorow for winning the Locus Award for best first novel. He got the award for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which I highly recommend. Hey, despite being an excelling first novel, it brought us the word whuffie.

Now I need to get back to his Idiot's book on getting SF published and see what it can do for me. (Yeah, I know, if you buy a book with a title like that...)

4:03:40 PM    

God help me, I took the "Which York Times Op-Ed Columnist Are You?" test, and, god help me, it thinks I'm Maureen Dowd. That makes me very angry. It makes me madder than Cheney telling Bush  to [insert popcult reference here] his [insert popcult reference here] on his way to [insert popcult reference here], while my friend said [insert popcult reference here].

What did I do? I said I like to read The Economist (and I do). Was it because I selected "Because George Bush is a #&&$#*(! moron" to the question about why I wanted him out of office.

Now who do I sue about this? Momma, I don't wanna be Maureen Dowd.

3:47:20 PM    

Now I'm thinking about Holoscan for comments. With a paid account, you get email notification and a lot of other features -- but no XML feed.

Told you I tend to obsess over tools.

Does anyone who has tried any of these comment hosts have any advice?

3:34:53 PM    

More news coming at 22 minutes past the hour...

The multi-author blogging tool reads the rss feed for the co-author's blog and then posts the new entries. Radio's built-in news aggregator runs once an hour. (You can't change the frequency.) Mine is set to poll at 22 minutes after the hour, which is probably the default setting. So on any day that I'm using this system to make frequent posts, they will appear at 22 minutes after the hour. It feels so broadcasty.

2:54:28 PM    

Holy multiple posts! Not sure how that happened. And once something is posted, I can't edit it until I get home.

That should make for some interesting mistakes on my part.

2:33:52 PM    

You can now reach this blog at alldaypermanentred.com and at permanentred.com. Whoo hooo! (If you can't now, you will be able to soon, as the domain name propagates out. It's working for me now.)

(But please don't change your bookmarks. I haven't set it up yet so that the blog watching systems recognize the new domains associated with the blog.)

11:33:21 AM    

Not having a lot of luck with remote blogging in Radio. I've turned remote access on, checked all the right buttons (including the one that allows posting of forms), but even though I can access all of Radio's pages remotely, when I try to post I get a 500 error.

So I'm trying the multi-author weblog tool with a second copy of radio running. Writing a few test posts to see what will happen.

Update: text to see what happens when you edit a post.

11:09:54 AM