Let's Get This Show on the Road, Finally!
Time to start blogging! Like all new bloggers, I obviously have no shortage of story ideas I might someday write about.
But first, my congrats to Blogger and its fine crew. Real help system. Comparatively intuitive menu systems. A compose window with a blockquote button. And yes -- could it be true? -- spell-check!
All of these seem to be missing from the dodge piece of blog software called, ironically, Serendipity. The word means the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. This little unfortunate discovery took a good day out of my life, what with the shoddy hosting of the s9y.org website, the nonexistent documentation, the questionable interface, and the general inclination I have to try to make things work.
I have noticed that some developers seem content to say "read the code!" whenever they are asked "documentation?". This seems to be especially true of Invision Power Board compatible RPG gaming systems. All three I've been able to find have nonexistent or horribly error-ridden documentation. We're not talking spelling mistakes here ... it's more on the magnitude of misspelled filenames, code that won't execute, instructions to delete critical files, etc.
Of course, blogger is not without it's problems. After completing the first spell check on this document, I noticed my first paragraph was helpfully changed to:
Flogging away,
Martin "Blocker" Burch
But first, my congrats to Blogger and its fine crew. Real help system. Comparatively intuitive menu systems. A compose window with a blockquote button. And yes -- could it be true? -- spell-check!
All of these seem to be missing from the dodge piece of blog software called, ironically, Serendipity. The word means the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. This little unfortunate discovery took a good day out of my life, what with the shoddy hosting of the s9y.org website, the nonexistent documentation, the questionable interface, and the general inclination I have to try to make things work.
I have noticed that some developers seem content to say "read the code!" whenever they are asked "documentation?". This seems to be especially true of Invision Power Board compatible RPG gaming systems. All three I've been able to find have nonexistent or horribly error-ridden documentation. We're not talking spelling mistakes here ... it's more on the magnitude of misspelled filenames, code that won't execute, instructions to delete critical files, etc.
Of course, blogger is not without it's problems. After completing the first spell check on this document, I noticed my first paragraph was helpfully changed to:
Time to start flogging! Like all new blockers, I obviously have no shortage of story ideas I might someday write about.
Flogging away,
Martin "Blocker" Burch
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