I thought this was a case of pretty good customer service, and I’m not even a customer yet. Within 24 hours of my post about WriteToMyBlog.com, I received a comment from Mark Ashcroft at the site. The reason it’s not working for you is your using your xmlrpc access address when it should be the Atom one. For MT it should...

For those of you who like this series – Apple has three more ads in the Get a Mac campaign with John Hodgman (PC) and Justin Long (Mac). This set also includes the rumored ad with Gisele Bundchen. It’s worth a...

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...

I checked the mail after getting home from work and found an envelope from th Harley Owner’s Group (HOG). That got my attention, since Biketoberfest is around the corner in Daytona. Could it be an interesting offer coming to town during that event? No, it was a Personal Information Advisery. It seems that a Harley-Davidson employee reported a missing laptop...

Be prepared to hear people say “yarr” a lot tomorrow, for September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. We don’t mean that you should talk like Johhny Depp impersonating a drunken (is there any other kind?) Keith Richards. No, this is about the traditional campy pirate talk from old 50′s movies. That’s why Robert Newton, the...