Migration to Radio 8.0.8 …

I have just completed my migration from Radio 7 to Radio 8 . It
has been a long time coming, and was quite a pain to do. There
were far too many details that I had to manage … I wish they would
have had some sort of upgrade program. They actually did … it
upgraded the blog database and some other things. It left my HTML
templates to me, and the HTML templates were not compatible between
versions.

I’m postin this tonight to watch and see that my new format is
working. I still have one more change that I want to make to the
item template. I might try it tonight.

I actually ran into a nasty problem last night, however I believe that
I now have that resolved. I had modified the opening “body” tag
to add a new background image. When I commented out an older
attempt at this (it includes a Radio macro to reference the images
folder correctly) it seemed that Radio had a real issue with processing
the macros when they existed inside of commented HTML.

Anyhow … back to blogging …

ATOM to RSS Conversion

I found this ATOM to RSS Conversion service today … it is extremely helpful for subscribing to ATOM feeds being produced by Google/Blogger.  They recently chose to drop support for RSS feeds, and are only providing ATOM feeds for subscription.

With all of the “wars” going on over these protocols, I’m a little disappointed that Google/Blogger has gone this direction … however it was only a matter of time before a service like this one showed up.  Blog on …

Selling stuff on-line … your own brand!

I was reading the blog of Nat Friedman and came across his reference to CafePress … a very cool on-line site.  They have taken the concepts of outsourcing to the extreme by allowing you to create your own product line from their merchandise.  I’m going to have to create an account and see what I can come up with.  Our 12 year old wanted to start his own line of T-Shirts, etc.

Looks like he’s now going to be able to!