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22 Jan 2003

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Pretty but pathetic.

I have to say that it's pretty pathetic that I have to use Front Page to write
updates to my weblog. It just shows how immature this field still is. Note: I
have nothing against Front Page but I should be able to update my blog from
within a tool that supports this blog natively and gives my a desktop-like
experience (ability to compose blog entries off-line, WYSIWYG editing,
spell-checking - I'm not asking for much). All the free tools were awful (of the
beginner's-twenty-minutes-programming-exercise variety). Out of commercial tools
I've tried Radio, in principle, does
that, but it crashed on me one too many times and its interface is bizarre (just
a nice way to say that it sucks).
CityDesk looks like it would fit the bill but they only support publishing
in HTML and I wanted something server-based (now I question that decision but
it's been made and I'm not switching again).

So I'm stuck with preparing entries as a HTML fragment and using web-based
front-end of MT to merely publish the content. There's something's wrong with
that picture.