We have new CDs now:

(To add CD to your purchase when ordering, just tick add/remove check box near “Backup CD” item.)

I’m implementing HTTP authentication support in BlogJet. If your blog closed with Apache HTTP authentication or other methods, could you please write to me – dmitry-at-blogjet.com? I want to test it under different cofigurations, so I’ll give you a beta version to download. Thanks!

Update: Thanks for testing! Please see new release.

Did you know that since December you can buy BlogJet on CD with your name and personal registration key printed on it? It costs +$9.95, and it’s a good time saver for those who tend to lose emails with registration data and experiences frequent hard disk crashes (I guess, in this case you’d better switch your HDD brand ).

To add CD to your purchase when ordering, just tick add/remove check box near “Backup CD” item.

Additionally, we’re now back to accepting American Express cards.

Also, EU customers will be glad to find that the EU VAT (for downloadable content) is now included in price.

Thanks to guys from cleverbridge for making the perfect e-commerce system!

I’ve been testing WordPress 2.0 with BlogJet since earlier pre-releases. It works well. Go download WordPress 2.0…

You know what? PayPal doesn’t accept payments from many countries. When you use PayPal’s system to accept credit cards, people from these countries just can’t pay.

For example, I’m in Russia. I can’t pay for, say, Flickr Pro account, since they accept payments via PayPal (even credit cards are processed by them), and PayPal doesn’t accept money from Russia. Or Mint (developer said that it’s not in his plans to accept payments without PayPal).

Now, everyone  (BSA, RIAA) talks that there are tons of pirated software, music and videos in our country. Since I’m a software developer, I know – this is bad, bad. bad. But how the hell we are supposed to pay if you don’t want accept money from us?

I want, I REALLY WANT to buy music from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Can I? No, they don’t accept my money. Same thing with music stores included in Windows Media Player – we have only one such store, which has only Russian pop music that suck.

Think! – Internet, Visa, Mastercard is all about going global. How are you supposed to go global if you restrict people from buying your stuff?

Think again! – there are tons of credit card processors that don’t exclude countries. Use them. Don’t use PayPal. Or use it as an option.

P.S. I accept PayPal. This is for your conveniece. I don’t want to exclude PayPal customers from purchasing my product. But since I can’t accept it directly (remember, I come from “bad” country), I use SWREG to process my PayPal payments.

utterdoul about “Group Posting” feature in BlogJet: 

“Most bloggers will simply have a blog or two and may not find this feature too useful. But it can be used to post to a ‘backup blog’, a secondary location that is a mirror of your primary blog (in terms of content at least) but hosted on a seperate service. So in case your primary is down for some reason, you can direct people to the secondary location. Ad if you have domain redirection, thats works just perfect!”

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I know, Aussies can’t imagine Christmas in winter , but here’s what we have here in Russian village:

I heard that in this year we have the highest snowdrifts in history – 39 centimeters (15.35 inches).

It seems like our children will laugh at us, like we were laughing at people who thought that the Earth was a plain object that laid on elephants. The solar system isn’t what it used to be…

It’s funny that the new planet was called Xena and it’s moon – Gabrielle. Can we then call a few more planets Stan, Kyle, Cartman and (for the dead object) Kenny?