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Google Helps Offer Blogger Pro For Free
Khazunga writes "News.com is reporting that the Google-owned Pyra are releasing the formerly-$35/year Blogger Pro weblog service for free. This is backed up by an announcement from Evan Williams at the Blogger Pro site, as well as a list of the newly free Blogger features. It's the dot-com frenzy all over again! Free services with no business plan... run for your lives!"
I want to keep a journal, but I want it on my computer, I'd prefer if it's not web driven and I want it to be robust and quite stable, able to backup, encrypt and compress, and any other features. Anyone know something like this?
at tclog.sourceforge.jp
It is a bilingual project, you use a tcl based client on windows or *nix and it will upload/rebuild your online system via ftp as needed. Very simple, could use a little work, but I just found it and got to like it.
>are there not better things to do than take the language too seriously?
There are definitely better things to do than take the language (or anything else) too seriously...by definition. The question is whether or not insisting on reasonable spelling and grammar constitutes taking the language too seriously, or merely seriously enough.
For most people who care about such things (and I'll admit without shame that I'm one of them, as I also admit that I'm not entirely without faults in the spelling and grammar department myself), they're simply a very useful shorthand...noticeably poor spelling and/or grammar are an instant tip-off that the person whose work you're reading either is an imbecile or hasn't taken the time to do even minimal checking of their own work. In online media especially, this is an important thing, because other tip-offs about the same problems often aren't available.
Perhaps you don't think that's an important enough thing to pay attention to. If so, pardon us for disagreeing with you.