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Stranded

For those of you who wondered if I had already thrown in the towel on this blog ... my apologies.

As you can guess from the funky base URL, Confessions is on a homegrown set-up. It resides on a home network that connects to the outside world from its little Linux box via microwave broadband. Turns out there was a firmware bug of some sort and the one-entity ISP was out of town.

The disadvantages of a home network ...

And while it was a situation over which I had no control, I do again apologize to anyone left scratching their head. I realized two things during my enforced hiatus:

1) I would love it if Movable Type had a client-side app for creating new entries. Yes, I could have just opened a text editor and typed stuff in to cut and paste later. But I really got hooked on XJournal for the Mac, which allows you to create and save ready-made LiveJournal posts while offline. I used it a fair bit to blog bits of MidWinter, even though I did end up cutting and pasting the material I put here (yes, I put almost all of my slack-jawed yokel posts in my personal journal). I think an offline MT app would be a useful, though not needful, thing.

2) Confessions really isn't ready for prime time, but at some point ... I might consider hosting options. I don't think the TypePad option is quite the way to go, but I could be wrong. But that's WAY off in the future ...

In the meantime ... it feels good to be back.

Comments

Maybe Bloggar would help with the offline/saving problem you mentioned in point 1. Welcome back and congrats on the internship!!

Thank you very much for the referral and the welcome. It looks like Bloggar only runs on Windows/IE, but if I finally break down and buy Virtual PC, I'll have the chance to test drive.

Although currently sharing the same Windows-only issue that w.bloggar has, Zempt will supposedly incorporate Linux support in its next version. That being said, I haven't heard much on the development front from the Zempt team lately, so this may just be wishful thinking.

Welcome back, Eli. Glad to see things up and running again.