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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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a list apart and wordpress.com are hosted on textdrive. 
Just how much is 10GBs/month of bandwidth at TextDrive?
prediction: textdrive will be one of the first mainstream (whatever that means) hosting companies to offer up an opml community server built in php.
my sentiments exactly, adam! well, i don't have a treo 650 and don't want one but with my nokia 770 i plan to take over the world.
totally cool, cosmicdread. here's to our own opml servers. everyone should have their own opml community server.
Using OS X's Automator to backup files to Backpack.
The folks at Nonstopmac.com put together a tutorial on how to backup files on your Mac to your Backpack account using Apple’s Automator tool included with OS X 10.4. Pretty cool stuff. Thanks for writing this up guys!
[Backpack Weblog]
Bruno Pedro has a tool that converts an OPML file into wiki-formattted text. [Scripting News]
just so this host switch makes sense, i paid $300 for a year of hosting with pair and that got me a 24% discount. i also pay $24/month for basecamp which allows for 15 active projects. consider that for a one time payment of $500 i can get everything i'm getting now and more. only domain registrar fees will remain for me.
if you are considering a textdrive mixed grill special, here's the faqs all on one page.
i'd know i was living in an xml-rpc dreamland if i could export all of my basecamp projects and import them into joyent easily. a boy can dream, right?
that's a good biz, taking the exported xml files of various app like radio userland and basecamp and whatever and making it fit into another system. i know people do that but for average joe like me this just ain't a normal activity and thus doesn't happen most of the time.
according to ptrourke on the textdrive forum, he does the math and says that "the investment is recouped in less than a year (11 months if you don't care about Joyent, 8 months if you count the MixedGrill Joyent account as equivalent to the $15 Joyent plan)". imagine that. after 11 months, i would no longer have to pay for hosting. and if i give up basecamp, that's the only other real business related expense i have on the net. so, i'd basically be free from monthly hosting bills in 11 months. wow. well, that doesn't include registrar fees but still, i'm just shocked at this upcoming reality.
right on.. opmlPete added my OPML Editor instiki wiki to his instant outline. the first thing i'm going to do when i get a textdrive account is move the instiki over there. they'll setup an instiki on port 80 with no problem.
according to pair, i can get a pro-rated refund. hello textdrive, here i come. i've been on pair for years and it kinda makes me sad to leave such an excellent hosting service but really, it's just a financial thing for me and i have to do it. looking forward to something new though and textdrive looks really nice for my needs. if anyone can tell me why i shouldn't go with them, please speak up cause i plan to act fast. thanks.
i get so tired of linking things. for something so central to blogging, i find myself just plain tired of playing the linking game. yes, i want to share links but that requires so many steps. even adding a few links per post per day adds up to so much time. the closest i've come to linking nirvana lately is writing in a wiki. just camelCase some words and there you go. instant link. of course, it's not a link to another site in particular unless that link has already been created (ala a glossary) but that kind of mind reading simplicity is what i'm after. how about a global web glossary that just links everything up, computer you are supposed to be smart, right? how come you can't figure out that just a few minutes ago i linked up the word textdrive and i'd like that linked up here as well? but no, i must go through the same antics over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and overand over and over and over........ ad infinitum. how many more times will i choose add link? how many more times in my life will i type ahref? here lies donovan. he linked more times than he blinked.
for a one time payment of $500 i could replace my current host at pair. i could also replace basecamp with joyent. and i could get offsite backups. sounds pretty good to me. i'd sure miss basecamp though and i like mixing and matching things. still though, the price can't be beat even if i don't use joyent and continue to use basecamp. makes me wisht there was a mixed grill plan that excludes joyent for those of us who have basecamp.
wish i would have signed up for a textdrive mixed grill special. alas, i've got till december 1, 2006 at my current host, pair. i love pair but they are just too costly for my needs.
slick icons, koz. thanks. now, how do i install them exactly? these end in .bmp and the ones in my folder do not. as a matter of fact, when i double click on one of the icons in the folder, it opens an accounting app on my mac. strange.
i detest cell phones. just lowered my rate plan and will save $20 a month. moving ever closer to a future that excludes these pirates from my life.
My name is Donovan Watts. Welcome to my web world. For work, I keep busy Getting Sites Built. For love of technology and freedom of speech, I publish Become the Media. For play and brainstorming, I thoughtStream. For the wondrous ocean, I produce Coral Reef Report. And for my love of music, I share tunes on iceplant radio.
life without an email address? wow. 
Donald Knuth, famous comp sci prof and book author at Stanford, doesn't have an email address, according to News.com. "You wake up, start answering email and the next thing you know it's noon." I know the feeling. He's also the #1 Don on Google. When I was a grad student, everyone studied from his Algorithms book, maybe they still do. It was the standard introductory Computer Science text. [Scripting News]
Netvibes launch a 1 GB personal web storage module !. This is an other move toward the web desktop.
Now you have a 1 GB hard drive available all the time on your... [Netvibes.com Blog]
i asked if the metaweblog api is on the instiki radar via the instiki email support list and got back this reply from rich morin (rich, i appreciate your feedback. i'm not debating the security or any other aspect of the api. i just want to know if instiki might support it. if another wiki supports it i'll jump ship cause i want to drive a wiki with my opml editor. simple as that.)
"What's Wrong with the MetaWeblog API?"
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/6/29/22931/0682
Seems to focus mostly on the lack of security.
well, maybe not. i can't figure out how to use the damn thing. the x-pro made it easy. the sjphone makes it hard. ugh.
i've been using the X-PRO softphone with my vonage account and am goin gto try the SJLabs softphone next. not crazy about the hi-tech (too busy and confusing) look of the x-pro.
OPML and Wikis
this is exciting to read from dave about tying in opml editor and wiki's. now that i've been really using instiki the wiki for OPML Editor (The Missing Manual) i've so wanted a way to use the power of my editor to drive this thing.
How long will it be before there's a wiki that supports the MetaWeblog API? A quick search on Google indicates that it might already have happened.
Anyway, send me a pointer to such a wiki, and I'll try to get the OPML Editor working with it. If there are problems, I'll document them, and when they're fixed, I'll try again. |
There's absolutely no reason that you shouldn't be able to edit wiki-text using an outliner, and I bet it would be pretty useful. [Scripting News] |
i wonder what the design decision was that made dave keep the OPML:www folder outside of the OPML Application folder? this is the one major heirarchical difference i can see from radio userland.
changes.hammer.us
imagine if you went to a hardware store and bought a fancy new hammer. then, every time you pounded in a nail, other people who bought that same hammer were alerted to the fact that you pounded in a nail. and likewise for you. this hammer community has one thing in common, the tool. they also have another thing in common. the hammer community which arose out of the use of the tool. one leads to the other which leads to what... i don't know. but i do enjoy building things and learning from others who are building things.
cori thinks we aren't watching his dietary feed unfold on the web. but us opmlers are a funny bunch. we like to know what's going on in each other's worlds.
today's made up word. Fauxotic: something made to look "exotic" by someone of limited taste, resulting in tackiness. [Life is a Cabaret of Chum]
so, i guess adam curry is still using radio userland to fire off his podcasts?
Re: Upstreaming blocked. Crap, same here in SF, can't post my podcast to iTunes due to the error. Suxville.
"don't worry if things get heavy, we'll all float on alright." - modest mouse
Oregon: 100% renewable by 2010? - Ottmar [Ottmar Liebert]
Knowledge worker reading list. Jim McGee has posted a reading list for knowledge workers - 25 books with excellent summaries of each book and how he has used them. I will add these to my reading list soon.
Enlarge your fonts. Enlarge your fonts Mac Tip #235/22-March-2006
Unification is going well. All these sites now share a common theme.
Midnight Cowboy Rating. When the movie Midnight Cowboy premiered in 1969, it had an X rating. After winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards, the rating was downgraded to R. [Babeland - Sex Information]
is there an OPML Editor IRC channel?
seriously considering switching from pair to textdrive when this year of paid hosting is up. textdrive is getting lots of good feedback and they have no problem running instiki.
today is different. today i begin using a soft phone.
My new MacBook Pro’s screen is about the same physical size as my old PowerBook’s screen, but it packs in more pixels — the individual ‘picture elements’ that make the screen work. That means that each pixel is a bit smaller than on the older machine (same space, [...] [TiKouka]
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