Posts from October 11, 2006

Google have announced Docs & Spreadsheets which is an overhaul of the original Writely interface and integration with Google Spreadsheets. I must admit I prefer the Google Docs interface and was interested to see that Docs can still publish to a blog (just like Writely).

The documentation suggests that tagging the article with keywords will be mapped to matching blog categories and that the document title will indeed be preserved in the blog entry. However, a simple test confirms that neither of these two features work as advertised (on WordPress at least). Sigh.

Monochrome screenshot from the wget mailing list featuring Emacs and Supercite circa 1997.

Just remembered that I was shocked and ashamed to discover that my father (Silver Surfer) was using IE7 when I last took my laundry home so I felt obliged to upgrade from IE6.

I also took the opportunity to upgrade to Firefox 2.0 RC2 from 1.5.0.7.

No detailed, lengthy reviews, I'm afraid. I did notice some changes to the user interface (IE now looks like Firefox 1.x) but most importantly, all my Firefox extensions still appear to work.

After my recent move from the community of WordPress.com, once again I truly feel like a Blog in Isolation. There are a few features I missed from WordPress.com:

• Dashboard - I can still check the WordPress blog, Top Blogs and Top Posts independently.
• Forums - While I can still participate, I don't really feel like a member of that WordPress community any longer.
• Comments - signed up for coComment that tracks all comments (not just those on WordPress.com)
• Tag surfer - can create Technorati feed(s) to replicate this but this was a nice, dynamic feature.
• New WordPress themes - If I like them, I simply download and experiment on this blog.
• Latest WordPress posts - an occasional diversion. No real equivalent (unless I login to my placeholder WP account)
• Avatars - Not bothered but favicon is your friend.