So, here's the deal.
- I've usually blogged to the family site via Live Writer on a windows machine. Mostly because I've liked Live Writer so much. But,
- My personal machines run LINUX (netbook) and Android (phone) nowadays.
- My work PC is a Windows environment, but I'd prefer not to blog from there if I can help it.
- The rest of the Typhoon has Windows machines, but like work, I don't want to have to use someone else's PC just to blog.
- Until today, finding a blog client I liked in LINUX has been met with abject failure.
Add to all this the fact that my netbook's LINUX install collapsed on me, leaving my machine unbootable until a kind friend with deeper LINUX knowledge than I, helped me get the machine reloaded. Yes, we resorted to the 'nuke and repave' strategy, but I kept all my data elsewhere anyway. Now that my netbook is running again, I can make that separation between personal machine and work machine actually happen. And, as luck would have it, I was pointed toward Bilbo Blogger as an alternative to everything else I'd tried and been dissatisfied with.
So, starting with this post, I'm blogging from my own LINUX box, using Bilbo Blogger, to see if I am satisfied with the experiment. I expect to encounter a number of tradeoffs and constraints I decide to live with or not...like most things in life.
Off I go. Wish me luck. If the blog posts *look* different going forward, it's probably a side-effect of Bilbo...or the dimunitive keyboard on my netbook. Let's all watch what happens.
Hopefully? Nothing.
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