I recently created another blog specific to my interest in Photography. While I haven’t exactly been burning up the Internet with posts on this one, I think I’m about to make some changes. Part of the reason I’ve not written here quite so often is my frustration with Movable Type – just signing in pisses me off. The new blog is under Word...

There’s another blog posting tool on the net. It’s called WriteToMyBlog, and it looks like it has a nice feature set. Unfortunately, I’m having trouble getting it to accept my Movable Type configuration. That’s unfortunately, but the thing that bothers me more than that is the utter lack of troubleshooting help on the site. This is a new,...

One of the things that I enjoy about writing here is that it gives me time to think for myself.  I don’t have anyone else telling me what to think about.  I’m not forced to pay attention to anything except what I want.  It’s a good time to let me mind roam. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to do that for the past few...

Since I wasn’t very impressed with Google’s Writely product, I thought I’d try the beta for Microsoft’s new blogging tool – Windows Live Writer. The first key difference is that Writely is a web app and Windows Live Writer is an offline tool.  Writely left me with a few complaints.  It never seemed to post a title to my blog...

One of the first things I’ve noticed about this little web-based word processor is that it doesn’t work with Safari on my Mac .  That’s unfortunately, particularly since the Help files show Safari as a supported web browser .  I guess the documentation folks didn’t tell that to the developers.  Then again, the documentation...

I just learned that Google’s online word processor, Writely, is now open for business. It looks interesting, and I’m curious to see how well it works to post items to my blog. It was pretty simple to sign up. Just give your e-mail address to serve as your user ID and select a password. You’ll receive an e-mail with a confirmation code to use...