Archive for October, 2004

Today doctors discovered that it was not chickenpox that hit me on September — it was some sort of viral hemorrhagic fever with kidney failure. Luckily, I almost recovered, while 5 of 100 people dies of this fever. 

The virus is carried in rodent reservoirs, so I wonder if it was my computer mouse who infected me  Anyway, now I try to use touchpad instead of mouse since I bought a laptop to code BlogJet while lying in bed. The new version — BlogJet 1.2 beta — will be available this or next week.

Jim Blizzard writes about his experiments with Microsoft Office 2003 voice recognition. He said that it works with all sorts of applications including BlogJet: read here.

Nick Bradbury (FeedDemon’s author) wrote:

Wow. I never expected Green Day would put out an album as great as this. I've been listening to it practically non-stop for three days.

Wow x 2. I never expected Nick likes Green Day too . Didn’t I said that I was the creator of the most popular Russian websites about Green Day a few years ago?

Buzz Bruggeman shows how to write a simple script for ActiveWords to switch accounts in BlogJet: read here.

Other news: I’m feeling much better now and continue coding the next version of BlogJet which, probably, will be available in the late October. I made a lot of promises about that version, so that it takes a lot of time to implement all the planned features:

• Extended entries.
• Excerpt and keywords.
• Trackbacks.
• Manual setting of post date/time.
• Easier account switching.
• Typograhic characters.
• Image resizing and thumbnails (not yet completed).

After BlogJet 1.2 release I want to have shorter release cycles, and one here’s the first step: I won’t make promises any more . In other words, I’ll apply Mouth Wide Shut policy by Joel Spolsky.