The Taxman's Tavern episode broke a golden rule of Time Team. It is meant to be like cricket, interesting in a quiet way with not much happening. Indeed the final scene is usually meant to be a desperately optimistic summarising of a few bits of pottery and wild speculation.
This episode just didn't play ball, there was just too much interesting stuff going on.
I quite liked jPodder when I first used it but the last release or two have been hideous with all manner of issues, particularly when I installed the Java 1.6 beta
It’s handy to be au fait with Java when looking at these problems and most of the problems with it seem to come from silly attempts to not be a Java program. Like for example using the Systray4J jar which is broken. I don’t expect a Java program to integrate fully into the OS. It’s no big issue, what I wanted from jPodder was a Podcast Receiver that would allow me to use BitTorrent to share the download burden amongst all the other client users. That’s what I wanted but I’ve given up for the moment and switched to using Juice. It’s not exactly what I wanted but its lightweight and it downloads Podcasts quickly and with minimum fuss. It also doesn’t try and download a set of default podcasts unlike jPodder
So I decided that trying to blog via Amaya and manual upload was too hard and too unlikely to happen but I also decided that Blogger really does too much fudging with the tags inside the post (treating paragraphs as Break Lines for example).
Therefore given that in this brave new blogging world (blogging doesn’t have a business model as the Guardian pointed out yesterday) there are many providers all eager to capture inanity for free I might as well give WordPress a go. It is after all the blogging software that all the cool kids use
First impressions are that, whoa, there is a lot more to WordPress than the simplified Blogger interface. That has pros and cons, there is a far bigger “How do I do this?” than Blogger which was pretty much just log on and get typing.
Why is the title of this post horrid lime-green for example?
Echo One 