Here’s a perfect example of behavior that irritates me to the very core: [ 1589673 ] Text Color Bug From Alienware

An article about Gaim hit Slashdot again a few days ago.

You can find the article here: A First Look at Gaim 2.0 [linux.com]

After several attempts with the linux.com comment interface (and three mispostings), I finally created this posting: Various Thoughts

The Slashdot article is here: A First Look at Gaim 2.0 [slashdot.org]

In general, when Gaim hits Slashdot, lots of users spend lots of time making lots of comments. Many of these comments represent honest questions, many are completely irritating, and a few can be very insightful.

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gnome-blog, version 0.8 has support for Wordpress blogs. However, it seems that selecting wordpress appends “wordpress/xmlrpc.php” to the URL. This results in silent failures if you enter, for example, “http://coderich.net”.I ended up choosing Self-run Other, then entered http://coderich.net/xmlrpc.php as the URL, and everything works. Yay!

Update: Apparently gnome-blog doesn’t set the title properly with BloggerAPI. I switched to MetaWeblog in the options and now it works!