creativity/machine

This is a test post using w.bloggar which is just completely cool. No more logging into blogger.com via a browser just to post entries or edit templates.

One of its many excellent features is the ability to tell the world what track you were listening to at the time of posting using the Windows Media Player 9 Series blogger plugin (which you can also piggyback Winamp plugins onto).

As in:
Currently playing: Keith Jarrett, The Köln Concert -&nbspPart I

The only gripe is that it doesn’t automatically insert title fields - you have to manually add heading tags to do that. I figured out how to force w.bloggar to allow title fields by changing my settings so that the account type is set to Blogger Pro (even though it isn’t) - I think this bug was simply due to the fact that Blogger only recently “merged” blogger pro and blogger free, and before that free accounts didn’t have title fields. Now everything is wonderful.

[update]: I have just discovered that editing your template in w.bloggar is not such a great idea - “save and publish” only republishes the index page, and doesn’t save to the “real” template. So save any real redesigns for the blogger environment.
[update]:Plus, you do have to log into blogger.com via the browser interface now and then to update your achives. It still rocks, though.

At the time of posting I was listening to: Squarepusher,  Two Bass Hit (AE Mix), from the album Maximum Priest EP.