I tried this a year ago only to experience epic fail. I tried this yesterday and it was a marvellous success. Around this time last year I was locked out of my Goo...

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Whilst trying to parse some Atom (my Blogger backup) with libxml2 I appear to have run into the same problem that Aristotle hit two years ago in XPath vs the default namespace: easy things should be easy, to wit: The story is that you can’t match on the default namespace in XPath.

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This blog is currently powered by Blogger. The only two desktop posting tools I’ve used and liked are w.bloggar and Windows Live Writer. The problem with both of them – or at least, my perceived problem with them is that they take too long to load. Quite often...

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With great reluctance I am temporarily enabling captchas for comments. Although it’s normally excellent at blocking spam comments, Blogger has let 300 spam comments through to this post in the past two weeks or so, and I’m running out of time to keep deleting them. I will try to remember to disable the ca...

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So, posting to Blogger from Firefox on Kubuntu doesn’t work and leaves me with a title and erases my post content. Lesson learned. Google Local for mobiles has launched. It’s currently for the US only, but 2lmc seem to have got it working in the UK too. Obviously the point of Google Local is to search for t...

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I’ve not seen any fanfare for this one (oops, it was announced on Blogger Buzz), but here it is nevertheless: Backlinks...

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About a year ago (or maybe more) I stopped using Blogger’s web posting interface and started using w.bloggar because whilst writing my post I’d be looking up resources, gathering quotes etc. etc. and just every now and again my browser (whether it was IE or Firefox) would crash, leaving me with nothing. Just over...

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I’ve been using Blogger to power this blog for more than two years now, and whilst the frills have become nicer, the core functionality provided hasn’t changed much in that time (except for comments! yay comments!), which indicates (to me at least) that it’s pretty good. In which case, we need better frills. Herewith some frills that I’d like: Per-post comment feeds. Currently I ge...

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After my original post about it, it’d probably be good to point out that Jeff Minard has taken the idea and run with it, introducing h tag support br tag support proper html syntax (a few tags were being closed incorrectly.) Various small fixes

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Blogger has a new look. Supports comments (including, it seems, a Typekey-style registration for all Blogger sites). Supports per-post archives. Support user profiles. Has a massively increased tag templating syste...

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