Paolo saw my post questioning how easy it would be for me to set up intranet services using Radio in the same way he has done at evectors. I'll be reading through his answer, but I also wanted to point out his observation about daylight savings time:

"Networked time. Yesterday in Europe we switched to daylight saving time and I almost didn't noticed. This is because my alarm clock is synchronized via radio with some German atomic clock, my VCR with the time broadcasted trough teletext (great feature: no more blinking 00:00), the satellite set top box is in synch with the satellite, my computers with some other time server. Basically I just woke up and everywhere I looked the time was right, no more clocks to move forward manually. Cool."

I've also been noting this to myself for the last year, but more because I still have to change too many clocks manually - the stove, microwave, alarm clock, VCR (which blinks midnight anyway because it's used only to watch kids videos these days), in the car, and those hanging on the wall. Half the fun is trying to synchronize them all to roughly the same time when you are losing time running around the house trying to find them all. It's frustrating that we haven't moved further ahead in this area.

This is how easy Radio makes things: my Dad is an avid reader, and that's putting it mildly. I'm always embarassed that I'm not reading as much print anymore when I'm around him or when we talk. He has adapted well to the web, and he reads quite a bit there, too, although I think I've got him beat there. My Mom would probably tell you he has adapted too well.

But now he's in China for three weeks, and for an information junkie like him, the most difficult part will be the disconnect from the news in particular. He'll never be able to catch up with everything I post while he's gone, so with a couple of clicks in Radio, I've created a new category called Dad. If I post something to my main page that I think he would enjoy, all I have to do is check that category as I'm posting.

"After playing with RSS/XML feeds for a while, I finally decided on Newscrawler. Very user friendly, plus I can post to the 'stuff' directly from the software which is a key time saver. This, plus Infominder, and my work has been cut in half. I can also get through more information from different sites." [Library Stuff]

Having done the Librarians' Site du Jour for four years without the benefit of blogging software and a news aggregator, I can appreciate how much easier Steven's job must have become. As I move forward with the SLS portal, my ultimate goal is to have the staff there say something similar when I get my vision in place.