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?

I wish you all the best. Have a happy holiday season!

I love slogans. It’s official — now BlogJet has its own slogan: “Focus on content”. Any objections?

P.S. I came up with it about a year ago…

Scott Hanselman blogs with Logitech io2 pen using BlogJet.

Darren Rowse wrote today the points he extracted from interview of Performancing with Matt Cutts, Google engineer, where he talks about optimizing blogs for search engines.

The first point was “I wouldn’t bother with year/month/day in blog urls; I’d just use the first few words from the title of the post in the url”.

Great. Now, what if your blog already uses year/month/day in URLs? If you change it, you’ll lose all your permalinks.

I have the solution. Here’s how to switch to example.com/postname.html permalinks AND keep the ability to use old names like example.com/2005/12/13/postname/.

1. Download and open your .htaccess file and remove lines “# WordPress BEGIN” and “# WordPress END” (so that WordPress can’t change your .htaccess file).
2. Add this line: RewriteRule ^(.*).html /index.php?name=$1 [QSA,L] at the end before </IfModule>.
3. Upload .htaccess back to your server.
4. Login to WordPress, click Options > Permalinks.
5. Replace your current Structure with  /%postname%.html
6. Download and open your .htaccess again and remove all the lines starting from “# WordPress BEGIN” to “# WordPress END”.
7. Upload .htaccess back to your server.

Done! Now you can access you posts by entering old permalinks, and new permalinks will be in example.com/postname.html format.

Wow! I’m happy to announce a very minor update with a major service support – BlogJet 1.6.1 (still Lime, remember? )

I think I’m the first one (two hours after the public announcement)… to release blog client with the native support for MSN Spaces.

NEW FEATURES

• Support for MSN Spaces.
• Saving Flickr login independent of “Save as default” option state.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed duplicating link text when using Insert Link in Code editor.
• Fixed: not deleting draft file after posting (with this option turned on).

Enjoy, Spaces lovers!

Download: http://www.blogjet.com/download/
Order now: http://www.blogjet.com/order/

Update: make sure you downloaded BlogJet 1.6.1 build 55, since previous versions didn’t work with categories in MSN Spaces. You can click Help > Check for New Version to check this.

I remember a few users requested support for custom smilies. With the new Auto Replace feature you have them.

First off all, you need to disable built-in smilies. Click Tools > Preferences… > Editor and clear “Replace smilies with images” check box.

Secondly, upload your smilies to your host.

Finally, click Tools > Auto Replace…, and assign words and HTML codes for your smilies. For example:

Word: :-)
Replace with: <img src=”http://example.com/smile1.gif” alt=”:)” height=”15” width=”15” />

Done! Now enjoy your custom smilies:

See how Auto Replace is poweful?