Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Pocket Blog RIP
Great. Pocket Blog dies before I have a chance to use it. It worked fine a month or two ago, but now when I try to update the cache, I just get "error while refreshing cache". Also, I spent 30 mins tonight inputting an entry at Riki Tik's in Brighton, but since I couldn't post, I wanted to save it to post some other way. Was there any way to do so? No. I could select all the text, but there was no way to copy or cut it so I could paste it somewhere else. What a waste of time.
So I look around and people say nice things about AvantBlog. But it doesn't accept my login info to Blogger for some reason. What’s worse, I now can't get the login screen, no matter whether I delete cookies, history, temp internet files, soft reset, unsubscribe/resubscribe, etc! I just keep getting "Could not connect to Blogger server or you don’t have any active blogs. Please try again later" I want to get the login window just in case I typed the wrong user name or password, but how?
What a pain. Perhaps big corporate software companies which can afford to properly test their software are the way to go.
Great. Pocket Blog dies before I have a chance to use it. It worked fine a month or two ago, but now when I try to update the cache, I just get "error while refreshing cache". Also, I spent 30 mins tonight inputting an entry at Riki Tik's in Brighton, but since I couldn't post, I wanted to save it to post some other way. Was there any way to do so? No. I could select all the text, but there was no way to copy or cut it so I could paste it somewhere else. What a waste of time.
So I look around and people say nice things about AvantBlog. But it doesn't accept my login info to Blogger for some reason. What’s worse, I now can't get the login screen, no matter whether I delete cookies, history, temp internet files, soft reset, unsubscribe/resubscribe, etc! I just keep getting "Could not connect to Blogger server or you don’t have any active blogs. Please try again later" I want to get the login window just in case I typed the wrong user name or password, but how?
What a pain. Perhaps big corporate software companies which can afford to properly test their software are the way to go.
Update 16/02/04: A few days after my post about AvantBlog, I got this email:
From: beau@dentedreality.com.au
Subject: Re: Problems with avant blog
Date: 12 February 2004 00:50:04 GMT
To: ron@chrisley.freeserve.co.uk
Reply-To: beau@dentedreality.com.au
Ron,
my apologies - I had to modify AvantBlog the other day because the Blogger API
is having problems and not responding properly to authentication requests, but
I completely forgot to include a 'try again' link at the bottom of that page.
I've added it in and you can try again now hopefully, but don't be too worried
if you can't log in - it's more likely Blogger's fault than yours.
Regards,
Beau
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Beau Lebens
Information Architect
beau@dentedreality.com.au
So it seems to work now. But I haven't actually posted with it yet...
