QumanaXP – My New Default Weblogging Tool
You would remember how in the past I have been weblogging a number of different times about what my experience with QumanaXP has been all along ever since it went into a public beta. Initially there were some issues that were addressed and fixed in the second beta release, but not all of them. In fact, there was a single one that prevented me from moving away from everything else and then get to use QumanaXP extensively, which was the inability to talk to my Intranet Roller Weblogger weblog. Well, folks, that is about to change.
I am not sure what has happened or who may have been doing some fixing up at what end, but the thing is that earlier on this afternoon I went and gave a good try to QumanaXP and see if I could configure it with my Roller weblog and not only have I been able to configure it successfully I am even capable of selecting multiple categories to post to and when doing a test weblog entry it all went really well and it posted it successfully the way I wanted using the MetaWeblog API.
Only thing that didn’t seem to be working was the couple of trackbacks I set up to see if those would work. And, like w.bloggar, it seems to have some kind of hiccup with that weblogging feature because it didn’t seem to be working. But that is fine with me, because, pretty much like I got used to doing that with w.bloggar, I can certainly continue doing it with QumanaXP. The good news is that it all seems to be working just fine and I quite delighted to indicate that from now on my default weblogging tool for all of my different weblogs is QumanaXP.
Certainly, a lot more user friendly than w.bloggar. Performancing for FireFox does not seem to be working for Flock 0.5.12, now my default web browser, and Flock’s weblogging component is something that I will still use every now and then, specially for that lovely integration with Flickr. But for the time being, I am quite content with QumanaXP and will probably stick with it for a little while now, since all of my weblogs are working quite all right with it. It is good to finally have one weblogging tool out there that doesn’t feel to me like I need to focus on the technical aspects of the weblogging environment but more just focus on the content itself. Quite an achievement !
Tags: Metablogging, QumanaXP, w.bloggar, Performancing, Flock, Roller
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The Fortress – La Fortaleza
Posted on Feb 27, 2006 | Categories: Photography | 3 Comments
I am sure that you would agree with me that there are times where we could all do with some unwinding from everything else that is currently happening around us so that we could go back and look at things into perspective and fix whatever issues that may be at hand and that would need some taking care of. Call it striking that work / life balance. Call it a break from work, from our busy lives, from everything around us that we need to think but just fail to come across loud and clear. You name it. Where would you go ? What would you do ?
Well, to me I have got the perfect opportunity discovering locations in Gran Canaria, the place where I currently live. This time around I have been sharing a number of pictures in my Flickr account from a place I went to not long ago. It is called La Fortaleza – The Fortress, and supposingly it was one of the latest strongholds from the local Guanches while fighting the Godos a few centuries back. I am sure that after checking out the pictures I have included below you will figure out why it was one of the last strongholds in the island.
Today though it is one of the most remarkable places from Gran Canaria where you can find lots of peace and quiet to do some serious thinking while contemplating some stunning landscapes all over the place through its many viewpoints. Something very distinct from the typical image the island has endured for the last few decades. Thus here you go with the pictures. Hope you enjoy them just as much as I did taking them.
 
 
 
Oh, and before I get to post this weblog post, I would like to bring to your attention a superb little application that you could use to help populate your Windows desktop with pictures from your Flickr account (Or from a particular folder in your computer) on a more or less regular basis (Hourly, daily, etc.) and displaying them to cover the entire desktop. The tool itself is called John’s Background Switcher and it is just so cool that I have been using it ever since I discovered it a couple of weeks back. So now I am getting all the different pictures from my Flickr account directly into my desktop and without any effort. You gotta love going through your favourite pictures every now and then to give you that little extra break from everything else. Worth while installing it for sure. Highly recommended.
 Tags: Gran Canaria, La Fortaleza, The Fortress
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