A stream of thoughtsciousness
My name is Donovan Watts. I am the Founder of Getting Sites Built, a web design agency.. we plan, design and build websites. Donovan's thoughtStream is my weblog. For kicks, I hoop. 
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thoughtStream fourteen 
If I were you, I'd listen to thoughtStream 14 wherein Donovan muses out loud about the posts entered here over the course of today. 
have you eaten a piece of fruit lately? please... go pick up and eat a piece of fruit right now. 
famine. universal mother. sinead o'connor. great song.
i like basecamp.
i'm a web developer. my partner for most projects that require more than one person is canton becker. together, we comprise gettings sites built.
we use basecamp as the central area for managing all the bits and pieces of our projects. using basecamp is like being forced to eat ice cream for dinner.
idea: what if my campfire chat logs were available in opml format?
can you say cool? this is neat. i have a need to place an excel spreadsheet on a web page for a client. this might be the ticket.
kissin' cousins
i'm thinking about an opml editor/radio userland mashup. might be a great way to have our cake and eat it too. i'm talkin' bout creating opml files and having them rendered as html files.
having a chat with les around the campfire. now that i finally was able to sit down with him, i hit him hard with my most vexing opml questions. what's up with the glossary? why can't i save an opml file in a folder and have it rendered as html on the server? all this and more in the transcripts in the thoughtStreams campfire chat room.
the wizard and the puppetmaster
dBug Loves Hooping
For those of you who may have missed it, here is the hooping video I posted yesterday.
And today I added this one of me hooping while in the zone.
sorry for the bad lighting. what can i say? i like to hoop in dark spaces.
dean finds a post on the OPML support forum that verifies marty's email to me which says that one must indeed have access to the opml community server in order to add entries to the glossary. not good. per the suggestion in the post, i think it's a good idea to... "Maybe you should store the user glossary in an outline in the decorations and replicate it to the server so that user entries still work with the server."
excellent. 5 apps to rescue the distracted.
it is raining pretty hard right now here in redmond, wa.
interesting idea about having a safari webkit window that is the preview area for your outlines. or so i think that's what les is talking about for mac os x peeps like me. i like it.
i like how les is including his instant outline as a web page called .plan. i'm not familiar with .plan pages but i like how it is produced automatically from the opml file. leave it to oxDECAFBAD to stitch all this stuff together. hopefully i can keep picking up the breadcrumbs of his experiments and make some of my own soup.
les, me and dean are hanging out at the thoughtStream campfire. care to join us for a chat? perhaps i can get les to clue me in on how to properly use the glossary? let's see....
MotoBill: "Today I'm testing the ThoughtStream Template by Donavan Watts." So nice to see the thoughtStream theme gaining momentum!
dan's OPML browser, Optimal produces cool web pages like this outta OPML documents like this.
add your instant outline to your site
dean points to his instant outline on his blog. that's cool but there's another way to point to it, dean, that you may wish to consider. it'll make it easier for your site visitors to subscribe to your i/o.
in your opml editor, choose 'OPML Coffee Mug' from the 'Community:Instant Outliner' menu. a new window will appear with some code in it. copy and paste that code into your template.opml file, perhaps into the sidebar area. this will produce a coffee mug on your site that other opmlers can simply click on to instantly subscribe to your outline.
i know the glossary is here but when i put a new entry into it, and then try to add that new entry to a web post as a shortcut, it doesn't work. does it work for entries you add yourself, cosmicdread?
marty says, "The glossary is used at rendering time. The renderer runs in the community server, so the glossary that matters is the one on the community server. When you change the one on your machine, it will affect things rendered on your system (nothing). One way around this is to do your own community server ... but that ties up your Mac serving your blog. That's what I know." Really? How do I add glossary entries to my local glossary and have them rendered. This has to be possible without a community server, I think.
les is working on an opml community server alternative
my thoughtStream podcasts added to my top level opml directory.
peter is on to something.
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