This weekend’s Buffy entry really drove the problem home. That is, the fifty times I’ve looked over my little 2 page essay and realized that it boils down to “I like Buffy because it’s about self-denial for the good of others and about fixing your mistakes.” Sure, that’s simplifying. I’m leaving out all the bits that point out that there’s more to the show than what I’m pointing out, but once I was finished hedging, did you really care what I was saying anymore?

I like to tell clients how important it is to tailor your tone to your audience, let’s do the same here. Time to go conversational.

You may also notice from today’s earlier post, I’ll be indulging in the occasional “lookie there” post, since there just isn’t time to write my own comments on all the cool things going on out there.

WordPress’ built-in rich text editor… not so good in Safari. Doesn’t run. (To be fair, I haven’t used a JavaScript based rich text editor that works well in Safari.) But hey… all the more reason to install a Textile plugin or the like, once they’re updated for WordPress 2.

So far so good on the categories. I’d like to be able to lock down posts to certain user groups (a la LiveJournal), but I haven’t seen a function for that. They’ve revamped the user accounts recently, so I haven’t got a good look at how they function yet.

This web host doesn’t seem to like .htaccess files, so unless I move to a different server, the permalinks will end up being query string style (the fun, hard to reverse engineer ?p=4629 approach). That’s disappointing and a bit of a usability, but there’s not much I can do on it at the moment.

I took a little time to play with desktop clients like MarsEdit or ecto. I’m running into difficulties with them both. Right now, MarsEdit won’t upload images. (I’ve got an interface issue there… there’s no clues as to where the path you enter is referenced from, so you have to guess.) ecto won’t recognize the site at all. So looks like it’s the traditional method for me.

I still have to check out the thumbnail functions for images uploaded through the regular WP interface, see how the WP generated thumbs come out as far as size.

But all things in their time.