Confessions of a Mad Librarian

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.