Allan McRae

It does not take long to realize that posting from within WordPress is not the most efficient process. For me, two posts was enough… So, the hunt was on to find a desktop application to post with.

Gnome Blog is in the Arch repos, but is a bit basic. The main feature missing for my purposes was the ability to add a category to posts.

A search in the AUR found Drivel. It has several useful features, including the ability to add a category to posts (however, only one per post and not tags), being able to edit recent posts and integrated spell-checking. Even better, its development is now being continued after a several year break.

This is why I had a bit of trouble getting home from work last night. My office and car was on one side of this flooding (about 300m in the photographer’s direction) and my house is very inconveniently on the other side…

Photo source: The Australian

The death of Google Page Creator (and the inability to do anything decent with Google Sites) has finally pushed me to get my own domain and make a “proper” website.  Now all I have to do is figure out how to make my WordPress install look semi-decent.  This could take a while…

Edit: decided to go with a slightly modified simpleX theme for the time being. There are a few things I still do not like about it but it is better than the default WordPress theme.