Okay, Now That We've Setup w:Bloggar

In a little side note in the help file mentioned in the last entry regarding w:bloggar, there was a comment regarding Windows Liver Writer.  Being always willing to experiment, I installed it. 
The only problem I was having was with the site URL.  It was totally my fault.  I was putting in the dashboard URL instead of that for the blog itself.  Once I corrected that line, the rest of the installation was automatic.

Let's see how it looks when published...
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Thanks to Samishra - w:Bloggar on Blogger

If this posts on Bell Tower News, it will because of Samisha at his website that explains how to get w:bloggar to work with Blogger Beta. Being that it is no longer beta, I would have thought this problem at been worked out at both the w:bloggar end and the Google end.

The only way to find out if the tip works is to post this message. Here goes.....
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End of Grazing Blogs

For now. The experiment of going to all the possible sources of blogging has come to an end. We will no longer support the many Grazing blogs that were created in the last few years.

Bell Tower News will now be our primary blog. We also have Rye Cake on Blogger and Artistic Grazing but have given them over to other users for specific topics. The broader range of blog topics will stay on Bell Tower News. =30=

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Wikipedia's Censors - High School Sophomores...

This morning's NYT has an article about Wikipedia's 'editorial staff' that anyone interested in how it works should read.

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Scribefire High ASCII Test

I am writing this with the Scribefire WYSIWYG editor and then will view it in the HTML editor, both of which are included in Scribefire.
That was a non-breaking space and this's an apostrophe.
Let's see what all of this looks like in the HTML editor...

It didn't show up in the HTML editor.

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ScibeFire just upgraded

ScibeFire just upgraded itself.

I wanted to see if it was still adding a few lines at the bottom of each message and if it would retain the password for the blogs to which it can publish.

Uh, oh! I just noticed it's replacing the apostrophe and non-breaking space with the high ASCII abbreviation. Now I need to check the settings. It may be the laptop's keyboard, though it isn't doing it when I use the online Blogger editor. Hmmmm...

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We Only Have One Day

We only have one day off this week, but it is a glorious day.
We just returned from a nice picnic at the Rich Folks house.

Once a year they open their estate for us poor folk to visit.  Some take umbrage at this.

I say, if I only get the one day it's one more than those who don't take advantage.



A well know Town Politician didn't make it because he died last night. I had said good night to him a few weeks ago after a town meeting, but didn't know it would be the last time I saw him. He had lost a lot of weight, but I attributed it to his being healthier.



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Safari For Windows

The computer experts are putting Safari for Windows down as just another browser, late in the game, full of bugs, etc. |

I've been using it all day. It might be wishful thinking, but it is working very nicely for me. The only problem I have had is with my spell checker. It is not working well inside this message window. It is producing all sorts of weird results when I try to use the single quote. It is bringing up arbitrary words and putting double letters in the front of corrected words. That is a bug for the spell checker.

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This is Fort Popham in Maine. What they are calling “The Patriot’s Day Storm” brought up the piles of driftwood you see along the lee shore.
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Who is this Alexa?

If you Google Belltowernews.com you get something called Alexa Liquors.

We know nothing about this company and has nothing to do with this blog.

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Google Editor Taking Away From Blogging.

After making an entry on to my virtual Moleskine document in Google Documents it occurred to me that there is a lack of entries in the blogs because I have kept a daily account there. It also explains the lack of entries in the real Molesting. 



I need to go back over those entries and see which belong in a blog.=30=

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One of those days...

It has been one of those days. I needed to get to somewhere early to set up. Did that and then spent the rest of the day moving people from one stage to the next and then back for evaluation. The last time, when I just took part without organizing, it was a circus.

This time it went smoothly, but was long. In the background was another low key crisis that kept reigniting itself spontaneously.

That's all I can say on a public blog, but it was good to get it off of my chest.

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Media Monkey and Foxy Tunes

I stopped using Foxy Tunes when I stopped using iTunes and switched to MediaMonkey.  Then I discovered Foxy Tunes is not limited to iTunes.  If you click on the player choice you will see if covers most of he major media players now used in Windows.

Not a profound statement, considering the state of the world, but it was what was immediately on my mind when I opened ScribeFire.  =30=

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Registerfly flown

There is all sorts of weirdness going on at the company where belltowernews.com was registered. We are at this moment trying to move it all over to PowWeb, Tucows registry and hosting service. 



If Belltowernews. com no longer shows this blog but some sort of weird portal advertising house sales or the like, we are losing the battle.  For now, it seems like we're only halfway. 



The photo you see in the heading is not the photo it's supposed to be.  It's something weird at brdk.net, our other battlefield. 



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Scribefire Blogger Editor

The rock star formerly known as Performancing in is now called ScribeFire.  This is my first attempt at using it to write to Belltowernews.



It seems to have inherited the settings that were already up for Performancing.



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Firefox Media Plug In

For a while I have been getting a "Plug-in missing" message when MS Mediaplayer files are embedded into a site.

I wanted to see the demo for Phrase Express version 4, but was stymied by this problem. I went to Firefox plug ins and the Extension Mirror for the same with no results.

Then I googled the problem, and came up with this link. I followed the instructions and now the media at least play outside of Firefox in the MS Mediaplayer itself. Not elegant, but I can see the demo now.

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Performancing Gone

The Performancing Firefox extension was causing all sorts of crashes, so I not only disable it, but deleted it from Firefox. Now I am looking for another extension to take its place. The lack of blog entries demonstrates how dependent on it I had become.

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New Grazing Site

We went over to LOL, Leo LaPorte’s Vox blog to leave a comment about his leaving Toronto. To leave the comment, we had to join Vox. So, the latest Grazing blog is Trounce Alley Grazing.=30=

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This May Be My Last Performancing Entry

That is not to say my last blog entry, no by far.



I just learned from watching the latest podcast at CommandN.tv that it has been sold to some company called Pay For Post. I do not want my entries regarding software to be in any way associated with paid announcements. I call them as I see them. =30=

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Ditch iTunes for MediaMonkey

I have been using iTunes from the day it was made available to humble endusers. Then I stumbled upon MediaMonkey.

In the profound words of Chandler Bing's love interest Oh My Gawd! For those among us who like to know where all of those music tracks we've downloaded from various sources, MediaMonkey will solve the mystery, organize and then, best of all, reorganize your iPod, (if you like.)

In the latest issue of Popular Science, RockBox was mentioned as the add-on for your already becoming out-dated iPods. Before you jump into that, look at MediaMonkey.

Since I found Skype, I haven't been this enthusiastic about an online related service.
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