musings

Well, my only complaint about Blogger (and it wasn’t really their fault) just went away. I hated having to edit through my web browser. I really wanted a nice little client-side application to post from, like the most-excellent LogJam for LiveJournal. I’d even thought about moving to LJ, because LogJam is so very cool, but I like Blogger’s flexibility more than LJ (even if I am using this pea-soup template). I knew about gnome-blog but I don’t use GNOME, and though gnome-blog works as a standalone app as well, it just doesn’t do all that I want. It doens’t, for instance, allow you to edit old posts. Well, BloGTK to the rescue. BloGTK is exactly what I’d been looking for. I’d tried an early revision of it, and my experience wasn’t satisfactory (I couldn’t even get it to connect to blogger.com) but today, with the release of v0.9, I’m well pleased. Any linux users that are looking for a nice client-side blog tool that connects with Blogger (or Movable Type or MetaWeb) should give this a serious look.

Given that it stars Keanu Reeves, I didn’t really think I was going to care much about the forthcoming movie Constantine, based on one of my favourite comics, Hellblazer, but I’ve just read something that inspires just a tiny shred of hope. Lisa Gerrard is doing the soundtrack. No kidding. So, at the very least, I’ll be ponying up the cash for the soundtrack album.

Wow, it’s been a while since a real post has happened. It’ll be a while more too. I’m still alive, but really really busy with work. It’s all good though ; it’s actually doesn’t suck to be working like a sweatshop slave if you’re doing it for your own company, and for reasons you deem to be valid.