Desktop blogging

After beating my head against my blogging software, trying to figure out why I could not submit posts via the various handy desktop weblog programs, I finally figured it out.

Now that I can blog more conveniently from my Mac I’ll try to keep the signal to noise ratio pretty good. Who knows, it may even inspire me to up the signal strength.

Update:
I’ve been trying out a couple of MacOS X Dashboard based applications for this purpose. Unfortunately, all of them seem to miss the mark for me by a few degrees.

First, none of them appear to have spel cheking. Though I tend to be a good speller, the automatic spell checking built into my Mac really helps me to avoid looking like a jackass when a neuron misfires.

The second problem seems to be more of an issue with Dashboard. With the exception of this posting, most of my posts tend not to be a quick note. Sitting in “Dashboard” mode rather negates the features of Mac OS X that I love.

Comments (archived)

Devin on Sept. 23rd, 2005 wrote:
The xJournal software you pointed out to me for LiveJournal is excellent. I don’t know if there is a way to adapt it for your website. It seems specifically designed for LiveJournal. I believe there is a way, if you have a LiveJournal account, to embed that journal directly into your own website. That could be another option. XJournal has saved me a lot of time and headaches.