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I was running into minor issues and was curious as to how you blog.

I’m using my Blogger account but hosting the blog at http://blog.cfgonzales.com/. So far so good, please feel free to check it out.

I am working on a way to effectively create/edit/plan posts before publishing so as to not be tethered to a computer in order to do so. I figured the easiest and most cost efficient way was to do this via my pda but in doing so have found a flaw in the software/setup.

I am using a freeware application (u*Blog) that seems to be as simple and effective as I would need it to be. It communicates with your “blog” via XML-RPC . The issue is that it doesn’t seem to pull all of the information I need from Blogger’s API in order to use u*Blog to it’s full potential. There is little to no support available out there for this software so I was hoping to get a little more insight on how you blog.

Do you use anything other than your computer to blog? Do you make use of Blogger’s XML-RPC function and if so what have been your experiences with it?

I know that u*Blog also supports Movable type which I am willing to try but would rather get input on Blogger first.

Minor reconfiguration

1. I set up blog.cfgonzales.com for my personal “day to day” blog.
2. reinstalled and reconfigured the u*blog application on my palm which enables me to perform planned blog entries on the go.

fleeting thoughts: with my current format of entering blog posts I can see a trend of my content being a mash up of dev and personal insight. I am okay with this for the moment but would possibly like to find a way to “tag” my posts for easy categorization.

Okay so apparently publishing to a blog using blogger is very easy even when hosting it on your own server.

Plans will be to:

1. I want to incorporate this blog feed into a main page as part of several feeds I will use to share with the greater world as we know it. The feeds will include but not be limited to other sites that I post to and this “main” page will serve as an umbrella for it all.
2. I’m planning on taking advantage of u*Blog on my PDA in order to blog while offline without having to use my LG the V aka vx9800 SMS or mms plan. Well see how that works because if I keep my current data plan with unlimited web access I do not currently see a need to have to use the separate data plan for messaging in order to effectively blog. The trick will be transferring my pix and flix sans MMS.
3. establish how much I want to customize the final design and feel for my main site. I’ve been told that a major flaw of mine is the want to reinvent the wheel every time I take on a new project

That should be pretty much it for now. I’ll get my u*Blog palm application set up being as they have specific features available to blogger users. Sleep is not an option right now because as of this post it is now 5:15am and I have last week’s E3 coverage playing on the telly in the background. Heh (^-^)

the obligatory document.write(hello world) post.