Talamathi

When I last wrote four days ago , I was trying out a blogging client called Bleezer . In retrospect, it ended a little bit more critically than I really intended it to be. I will admit, though, that I have been getting a little frustrated with blogging clients in general. Posting through a web interface is not really my thing, and I can imagine that this is true for a lot of other people. Trying different blogging clients out there has kind of left me wondering how all of my favorite blogs seem to get updated so often. Anyway, after my post Larry Borsato (the person behind Bleezer) left a comment , which was geneal enough to convince me to keep trying. Actually, I probably would have in any case, since this program does have a lot of potential. And yesterday Bleezer was updated to version 0.9.8.2 , which makes it (0.982 - 0.980) ÷ 0.980 ≈ 0.2% better than version 0.9.8 (which I was using). I guess the question is if this makes it usable for me? First off, I’ll start by...

After MarsEdit turned out to be less than optimal with the new Blogger (for now), I am trying to find another tool that might work. I’m new to this whole thing, but Bleezer seems to fit the essential qualities of what I would like: I can actually post titles (unlike MarsEdit, for now). Like MarsEdit, it gives me the ability to see previews of what I’m typing. Unlike MarsEdit, there’s a compose mode where I can try to type a little bit WYSIWYG (From what I can tell, MarsEdit is a strange, although mostly intuitive, mix). I can ping a few sites for notification, i.e. Technorati . Again this is like MarsEdit. I can write things in Unicode, and it escapes everything appropriately. See: तलमाथि. 日本語. It did that for me. Hopefully, tags work. On the other hand, there are some definite downsides. It’s very obviously a Java application, which has the upside for the developer of not needing to compile it multiple times. Unfortunately, this makes it very unMac-like. Seriously, what’s the deal ...

I used to hear a lot of good things about MarsEdit , and since I have a free copy due to having NetNewsWire 1.x, it seemed reasonable to give this a try. That, and I've always liked Markdown . It gives me a standard way to write text files that are easy for others to read. Plus, with a little bit of work, you can modify your favorite Markdown tool and have it output LaTeX. Edit: Unfortunately, it does not seem to pass on the post-Markdown formatting to Blogger. Anyway, never mind this. I got a little annoyed with Blogger’s web interface for posting things. And now, to try some code: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int a, b, c; a = 2; b = 3; c = a + b; cout << "a = " << a << ", b = " << b << ", c = " << c << endl; } Should this come out nice, I expect to post a lot more. Of course, that’d require someone to read it.