Blog clients

Was
playing
with Gnome Blog earlier.
Thing is, my blog is
hosted by my ISP, and I upload using
SCP, so I can’t use it for my “real” blog.

Wish I had the time to write a simple client, based upon Gnome Blog that would
do the following (all toggleable):

• Save the blog entry in a Blosxom
  compatible format to a local directory, using either a user-specified filename,
  or UNIX date format filename, followed by user-specified extension.

• Upload to a remote server by FTP, with password either saved (ouch) or
  prompted for.

• Upload to a remote server by SCP, using gnome-ssh-askpass2 to
  provide the passphrase (have built updated openssh packages for
  SuSE 9.1 to add gnome-ssh-askpass2 to
  openssh-askpass – might split it out into a seperate
  openssh-gnome package.

I guess ideally, these would be included in Gnome Blog, might drop Seth a line
to ask about it, another of those moments when I consider learning
Python.

New openssh uploaded, along with updated gstreamer
packages (0.8.8 – released today)

Just got a GMail invite this morning,
have to say, it’s very nice, why can’t other webmail services be like this? It
actually feels like a real application. Well done Google.

We’re out for a Wetherspoon curry
tonight with Liz & Jo from college. Planning to get some work done on my
BS102 essay before
walking down.