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		<outline text="Good afternoon sports fans."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/01/28/020128opcurve.xml&quot;&gt;Steve Gillmor&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Not only does Radio shield you from the internal workings of the Web services architecture to dynamically generate highly customized Web logs, but it goes beyond authoring as an XML router with a subversive peer-to-peer engine.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Subversive.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:38:01 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/01/26/burns.gif&quot; width=&quot;62&quot; height=&quot;134&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;12&quot; vspace=&quot;3&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named burns.gif&quot;&gt;A reader's guide to the above. Sometimes my evil twin gets a word in there. This time he's talking as Homer Simpson might talk about donuts. An alternate pronunciation could be as Mr. Burns might say &quot;Excellent.&quot; If you don't know the Simpson's character set, please feel free to ignore this paragraph." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:48:40 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100165/2002/01/25.html&quot;&gt;Phil Ackley&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I work with the devil.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Excellent.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:44:27 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://sheila.inessential.com/2002/01/26&quot;&gt;Sheila&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;It just started snowing in Seattle.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Snowing.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:00:44 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100149/&quot;&gt;Craig Jordan&lt;/a&gt; is a lawyer and he wants you to steal his idea. Now that's the kind of lawyer I like!" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:56:17 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flutterby.com/&quot;&gt;Dan Lyke&lt;/a&gt; is using the XML &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/changes.xml&quot;&gt;version&lt;/a&gt; of Weblogs.Com in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/01/26/danlyke.gif&quot;&gt;innovative way&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:10:49 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Progress on the new Easy Images stuff. I just used the tool to upload a &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/01/26/recursion.gif&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt; of itself. Heh it works. Nice. Still chuggin along. Ooops I see a mistake. Fixed. More progress. I've got it upstreaming, now I'm writing the code that posts it to your weblog. And for validation &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=afficionado&quot;&gt;afficionados&lt;/a&gt;, yes the img's have &lt;a href=&quot;http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/alt/alt-text.html&quot;&gt;alt attributes&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;;-&gt;&quot; " created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:34:05 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$9063&quot;&gt;New Radio 8 feature this morning&lt;/a&gt;. Now the Edit This Page button works correctly and opens the text of a story in a browser editing box. " created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:54:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Kevin Altis: &lt;a href=&quot;http://altis.manilasites.com/2002/01/26&quot;&gt;PythonCard 0.6.3&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:18:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://pic2html.vvv.tf/&quot;&gt;Note&lt;/a&gt; to self: Check out this Web app. And then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/radioUser/&quot;&gt;Ralph's&lt;/a&gt; links." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:22:13 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I just got the preliminary numbers for January. It's looking pretty good. A hearty thanks to everyone who bought our software this month. We couldn't do it without your support. " created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:55:39 GMT"/>
		<outline text="The number one item on my list for this weekend is to get images working at a higher level in Radio 8. I want it to be easy and convenient and delightful." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:21:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Congrats to Evan for getting &lt;a href=&quot;http://pro.blogger.com/&quot;&gt;Blogger Pro&lt;/a&gt; out." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:39:36 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Amazingly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xp-trafficsaver.com/&quot;&gt;someone&lt;/a&gt; is trying to monetize fear over Microsoft's Smart Tags. Monetize. Was that even a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=monetize&quot;&gt;word&lt;/a&gt; before the dotcom schtick?" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:44:12 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angrywhitegirl.com/&quot;&gt;A candidate&lt;/a&gt; for the best blog name of 2002." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:46:39 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/01/26#whereWereAt&quot;&gt;Last year on this day&lt;/a&gt;, an essay about responsibility, tipjars, and evolution of the Internet. " created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:27:56 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Easy images" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:20:13 GMT">
			<outline text="Here's how the easy images stuff is going to work. " created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:20:17 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2002/01/25/mydocuments.gif&quot; height=&quot;49&quot; width=&quot;73&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;18&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;On the desktop of Windows is a folder called My Documents. Inside that folder is a sub-folder called My Pictures. They've tweaked the OS so that graphics programs automatically seek to this folder when users save a picture. So this is the natural place to pick up pics that are destined for your Radio website. (I understand the Mac has a similar feature, and of course we're going to do it fully for both operating systems.)" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:31:51 GMT"/>
			<outline text="In the My Pictures folder is a sub-folder called My Web Pictures. We create this folder automatically when Radio starts up. When you save a picture into that folder, it is moved from that folder to the images sub-folder of your www folder, where it is upstreamed to your public folder. (It actually goes into a calendar folder structure in the images folder.)" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:25:21 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Now here's where it gets clever. After the upstream happens, a browser window opens with the text of an &amp;lt;img&gt; tag in the edit box on your desktop website home page. Height and width are set. Border, align, hspace and vspace are given values you can change if you want. You can post it, or copy it to the clipboard, or ignore it. There's a prefs page that allows you some control over the &amp;lt;img&gt; tag that's generated." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:27:21 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I have a pretty good idea that this will work, because it's an enhancement of the picture management tool I've been using for my Web work for a couple of years. It takes what used to be a tedious multi-step operation that requires a lot of memorization, to a one-step process -- just save the picture where the OS wants you to save it, and we do the right thing with it." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:30:11 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Now I have some technical questions.." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:31:57 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Technical questions" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:50:25 GMT">
			<outline text="On my system, the My Pictures folder is at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/01/26/wheresTheFolder.gif&quot;&gt;location&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:50:30 GMT"/>
			<outline text="If you use Windows, is that where your pictures folder is?" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:50:54 GMT"/>
			<outline text="If your name is Administrator, I guess so. But if you have a different name? What if you use Windows 98? Or XP? In other words, how do I write software that finds this directory?" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:51:06 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Next question. What about Mac OS X? And what about 7.5.5 and greater? Where do pictures go on those operating systems, and again, how would a program find these folders?" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:51:48 GMT"/>
			<outline text="If you have info, &lt;a href=&quot;http://subhonker6.userland.com/staticSiteStats/mail?usernum=0001015&quot;&gt;send me an email&lt;/a&gt; and I'll share what I learn." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:52:23 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Simon Fell says that &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/Functions/SHGetSpecialFolderLocation.asp&quot;&gt;on Windows&lt;/a&gt; there's an API for this." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:13:13 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Then on a whim I checked if we have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://docserver.userland.com/file/getSpecialFolderPath&quot;&gt;interface&lt;/a&gt; for this in Frontier, &lt;i&gt;and we do!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:18:03 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/01/26/fileGetSpecialFolderPath.gif&quot;&gt;Screen shot&lt;/a&gt;. But we're not all the way home. That verb hasn't been updated in a while and there's no way that I can see to ask where the My Pictures folder is. We can't guess that it's called My Pictures because in Freedonia it's probably called Megza Pycterovich. It looks like the verb needs an update, but it seems Windows has a clean way for us to get the path." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:18:24 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Now about the Mac. Thanks for all the great emails. I've gotten a couple of dozen in about fifteen minutes. Here's the deal. There never was a pictures folder on Mac Classic, so there we'll make up a place, as a default (on all platforms, actually, the user can tell us where to look for new pics). On Mac OS X, the pictures folder is apparently called ~/Pictures. Can I fileloop over that folder? " created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:22:29 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001264/&quot;&gt;Marcus Mauller&lt;/a&gt; volunteered to test file.getSpecialFolderPath on Mac OS X." created="Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:41:35 GMT"/>
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