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On my other blog, The Eclectic Attick , I’ve started tracking my writing exercises. I’ve challenged myself, to writing 200 words per day on a range of topics. These I’ll pick from writing prompt books, since I’m just not that creative on demand. I hope this will improve as the exercises improve. I am hoping to fulfill a promise made to my language teachers in high school. You see whenever they set a writing assignment with a set limit of words, I would always exceed that limit with a wide merging and then argue the point that I could not possibly shorten the piece. That every word was where it needed to be to support the sentence and every sentence did it’s job to support the story. Yeah, right. I just loved spinning a yarn. Stories. Imagination. Oh, how much fun this can be. When you can take a number of letters, pluck a word or ten from the ether, and string them along into a sentence. Then take this sentences and shuffle them on the page until you start pulling from the blankness an...

BlogJet -- Offline Blogging software I've been trying to get BlogJet running from within the company to update my blogs. Unfortunately, technology has conspired to bring me to my knees. Begging and pleading my machine to restart, and forget about this new live affair it had developed with updates. Eleven! Eleven I tell you. One shutdown and it needs to install eleven updates. Sheez, now I have to blog from the iPhone - at least I can, thanks to the enterprising developers that developed the Blogger and Wordpress blogging software for the phone. Software that I gladly pay for since it gives me the freedom to blog on the run. Or, in the wait, as the case may be. After all of this I hope the BlogJet software will work as smoothly as MacJournal does on MAC. Finally, the count is at eleven... Here's hoping it's the end of the crying game for blogging offline. Unfortunately the reboot and patch install did not help. Every time I type in BlogJet I get the enigmatic ...

Offline Blogging Software          I’m at it again… blogging. What you didn’t think I’d write about something else now… Well this time it’s a bit of a gripe about proxies, and firewalls and getting BlogJet to work from my desktop. Would have liked to get the BlogJet software to work seeing as I forked out for the family pack license… I’ll check at home and see if the software works there where I’m far removed from the corporate drones and their drone mentality.         I’ve even tried to download Microsoft Live Writer but the download doesn’t even open on the desktop -- guess Windows XP Professional is just too old for such current software, so I’m writing this on the trusty MACBook Pro with MacJournal… at least here I can write offline and upload the final to the site… spell checked and only grammatical and usage errors due to yours truly.

Testing the blogger iPhone app. Now when I'm furiously typing away on my phone everyone will wonder what my SMS bill is. But, unfortunately, I will also be subjecting the world to all the crazy, sometimes silly, mostly musings in these posts. I will be writing about everything and anything. Luckily, living in South Africa gives me regularly heaps of things to digest, especially with ANC rule. They are probably the one party which proves, that when a mike is shoved in your face, silence us the better answer. Unfortunately, they tend to take some time off and then come back with a well researched and considered,... well we would still prefer them to shut up because they are embarrassing everyone. I wanted to call their response an 'opinion', but some how that implies thinking about the problem and not just rewording the problem and blaming someone else. Eish.