I enjoy using Firefox for the majority of my web browsing. Anyway, I found a Firefox add-on called ScribeFire. It lets me edit my blog without actually having to log onto my site. It is a cool idea, but I am undecided so far.

I have finally migrated all of my old blog content. Enjoy!

I want to update my site. Sure, it serves the needs of the few visitors who frequent my site. But, it does not quite serve my needs. When I first started this site in the mid-nineties, one had to manage their own content. I wrote several programs to help manage my site. In particular, I wrote my own blogging software. The upside of my software is that I have infinite control of when content gets posted and the various ways that it can appear. The downside is that I have to make all of my blog entries from my home computer. I would like to blog while I am away from home.

I guess if I actually read my own blog, I would realize that there had not been any entries this month. I am not sure if anyone really reads this on a regular basis, or at least there have been no complaints. At any rate, it is time to catch up.

I suppose that the title of my last blog post, "Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is," is rather appropriate. My last post was in March. I generally like to do at least one post a month. Anyway, here is my overdue entry:

After I had finished writing my blog entries, Rachel asked me if I had Internet access. There were at least twenty wireless access points (WAP) that the computer could see including "JAZMANN," "tet," "Tom's Network," "SST-PR-1," "Apartment," "tR@nsM1tnG," "HMI-GUEST," and "Healthy In Paranoid Times". However, only "ICEHOUSE" had a reliable enough connection.

My wife and I spent most of today cleaning. We did the inside of the house, then we did some yard work. We ended up with about a dozen trash bags filled with leaves and other yard debris.

Also, I did some minor changes to my blog. Now, each blog entry has its own page (when you click the Permalink link). This will allow Google and other search engines to properly index my site.

I've decided to stop using blogger.com. I have nothing against blogger.com. However, I wanted to see what it would take to write my own blogging software. I feel that this would give me greater control of how stuff is published. For example, it will allow me to create and publish XML and HTML files simultaneously. This will give me the ability to create a single page for each blog entry that search engines can cache while still giving me the ability to syndicate my blog via RSS/XML.

There was a bug in the my blog search tool. Sometimes the results would be duplicated. This has been fixed.

Blogger.com recently announced some new features for free accounts (like mine). The biggest feature (or at least the one I'll probably use the most) is the ability to spell check each post. Very cool.