Blog Revisited

I've been meaning to revisit the whole blogging idea. My first attempt was rather faint wristed, limp livered and lily hearted. There's a line in Pride and Prejudice, where Lizzy observes that attempting one nice solid sonnet is enough to wither away a feeble attachment. Similarly, one meaty post that I lost when my browser crashed* was enough make me decide that blogging was not for me. And, as a wise man once said, "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."Chez sloth, we take such advice very seriously.

In the end though the temptation to resume blogging has been overwhelming. Chiefly because of the opportunities it provides for procrastination. As a geek, I simply had to migrate the blog to the all new much improved blogger 2. Goodness knows what the difference is but, well, that word upgrade just gets the heart a-poundin'. Then, of course, the template needed to be changed. And surely I could come up with something I liked more than the out of the box template from blogger? Unfortunately a blind hippo has a more sensitive sense of aesthetics that I do, which means that those monkeys are more likely to churn out Shakespeare than I am to design something that looks attractive. So the standard template it is.

Then I thought, where's the XEmacs integration? Atom-blogger is supposed to provide that sort of integration, but it doesn't seem to have been updated to use the new improved Google API that Blogger Mark II uses. But then, the thought process ran, something out there in emacspace must interface to that Google API. A quick search didn't turn anything up (which is not to say that it's not out there. Somewhere.)

The old thought-dreams then tried seduction: "Navigate that plague of lisp parentheses, write your own wrapper ...". "Hmm, sounds good" thought I. This lead to an hour rooting around in google documentation until, finally, the thought struck. Perhaps I should just write something. Anything. And so I have.

* crashed, in this context, means that I closed the browser by mistake.