Olbermann responds to Rumsfeld

I am absolutely impressed with Olbermann's broadcast speech. The YouTube file is posted below in the hope that you will watch, listen, and regain some sense of pride and hope in network television. My best wishes to the Fifth Estate and us all.

WiFi and WinXP

I've been having a hell of a time trying to maintain a 'net connection, lately. Found a simple (probably very short term) fix at Wired. The helpful article is entitled Windows XP Bedevils Wi-Fi Users. The workaround is found on the second page, at the very bottom; here it is, copy and pasted:

• Go to Control Panel.
• Choose Administrative Tools.
• Select Services. A two-pane window comes up.
• In the right-hand pane, scroll down and click Wireless Zero Configuration.
• Click Stop the Service. A progress bar may come up briefly.
• Click Start the Service. Again, a progress bar may come up.
• Close the Services window. At this point, Fleishman said, the connection should come back.

Tags: technology wireless wifi howto, ksavo, kslog

Writely, DeviantArt

Writely, now another Google-owned service, is once again accepting new user accounts. I suggest you check it out.
This is going to be very handy for me once school recommences. No more cutting and pasting, uploading/attaching to hotmail, saving to USB device. All my written assignments will be composed and saved online.
Type, print, hooray!

DeviantArt, on the aesthetic side of things, has been updated. The new look is, gladly, no drastic change, but all the menus and graphics seem smoother and a little glossier now. DeviantArt -- Now less dreary than before!

Blogger vs. WordPress: Competition heats up

Three weeks ago, kslog was assigned a second home (really, more like a zen garden) at WordPress. The toe-dip experiment got under way when this typer desired an updated set of features (in addition to the Blogger standards), such as

• tags for entries,
  
• post categorisation,
  
• templates to choose from which didn't look as common as Blogger's,
  
• a super simple/obvious off the bat way to post RSS in a sidebar,
  
• customizable template CSS.

WordPress has much to offer kslog and was slightly ahead of the game, thanks to its early adoption of tags. Until recently, I've had to keep an extension installed in Firefox in order to easily tag my Blogger posts.
And then Blogger picked up the pace (a bit).
An announcement, dated August 14, informs readers that the service will be available in beta, with added features such as 'labels' (why not stick with the rest of the 'net and just call them tags??) and mouse (vs code) template customization. Sounds interesting; it's nice to see some advancement. Problem is, my perception of Blogger over the past while has been shifting toward juvenile, clunky, and basic. Now that owner Google seems to have the ball rolling at its blog company, maybe the dillydallying will cease and Blogger will pull itself up to date.

Question for the reader:
Which publishing service do you use for your website?

Tags: blogging, technology, WordPress, Blogger, ksavo, kslog