What Was She Thinking?!

What you say? Wasn't Easter last month? Well it was unless you are an Orthodox Christian. For them, Easter falls on April 27 this year. And they celebrate Easter with a wonderful tradition of brightly colored eggs. No Easter bunny, no garish green grass. These creations are drop dead gorgeous. To all my Serbian friends (they know who they are), I wish you a happy Easter!

Thanks to my buddy Alex for the pic!

This is an example of a posting that was created on Monday morning which I don't plan to release until Tuesday night. The beauty of Live Writer.

Update: Well, maybe not. Seems this feature of WLW doesn't play nice with OC blogs; the post is NOT held in queue for later. Well, at least the Insert Live Map plugin works!

Because I have so many blogs scattered all over the Internet, it is convenient to manage them all in one place when possible. That's why I use a program called Zempt to post to all my Movable Type and WordPress blogs. I tried to configure my Opera blog to use Zempt but it doesn't have the required API.

Enter Windows Live Writer. This is my first Opera post using WLW so we'll see how it goes.

Mad props to Opera user Gary Denness for helping me figure out how to set up Windows Live Writer (WLW) to work with the Opera Blog Community. I'm now going to push the envelope (and my luck) and try to use some of the WLW plugins available.

In My Ears: http://www.last.fm/music/Legende/ > A sad znam

WLW Setup (thanks again, Gary!): Under blog URL, type http://my.opera.com/yourusername/blog/ then choose MetaBlog API and for that URL, type http://my.opera.com/yourusername/blog/api. That should do it. WLW will then find all your personal tags. I'm not sure I can upload a picture to Opera with WLW but I may try that next as I've downloaded a cool Polaroid plugin that I'm dying to use. :-)

Gotchas: Well, it behaves a bit oddly. When you publish from WLW, and go to view your newly-published post, you see raw codes next to each paragraph. But if you just hit the Edit button in Opera and repost it, those go away. Weird. Also, Opera's API doesn't support categories/tags, so you do have to go back in and edit those if you want them. Other than that, seems pretty cool so far. I haven't tested the posts in the future but that might be something nice to do. To sit down and create a few posts, and then set them for different days. Might keep this blog from gathering too much web lint.

This just goes to show that the more things change, the more they remain the same.