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Microsoft says Apple isn’t pushing

Microsoft says Apple isn’t pushing OS X, as evidenced by the lower-than-expected sales of Office v.X. Hmmmm. Well, Office v.X costs about $500 and it only runs on OS X. Even though it’s Carbon, it won’t work on OS 9. Maybe that’s sticking point for some people. And even so, it took Microsoft a full year to support OS X with anything other than IE. More here.

Funny that this is on the same day that Microsoft finally releases their Palm conduits for Entourage X.

Dave Winer (author of XML-RPC which makes this website possible) is quitting his smoking habit: “Four weeks — no smokes. 28 days. Still think about them, but less often (in other words, not every waking moment).” Go for it, Dave. Half the stuff you write still makes me think you’re a hoser, but you can be a healthy hoser.

Back from Stone Harbor (actually,

Back from Stone Harbor (actually, I have been for a few days now). Will post more later. Got some of the software upgrades I need to continue serious development on Frequency. I’m finally posting from a built application and it’s pretty cool. We’ll see if the publish option works now.

I am continuing work on

I am continuing work on the Blogger API in REALbasic, and making quite a bit of progress. So far I can send new posts (the most important part of the program, really), get a list of a user’s weblogs, and I wrote a link manager, so if there are certain links you use often, you can store right in the program. The biggest problem I’m having is that sometimes I can send a new post, but it fails to publish. After a look of work on my part, I found out via the BloggerDev mailing list that due to an internal change, publishing from external tools calling to the Blogger API is likely to fail for the next week or so. Kind of annoying, but at least I feel better knowing that my code isn’t the problem.

For what it’s worth, I’m posting this from the 0.1a2 (early alpha 2) version of the program. It should be in beta sometime next week (assuming certain software upgrades on my part). If you would like to help with beta testing, please email me. All you need is a weblog through Blogger with the FTP username and password saved on Blogger’s server.

Hmmmm . . . I just realized, by using the program for this post, that I forgot to add a “Select All” method to the link editor. Back to work . . .