Never enough hours in the day for most people, and I don't know about you, but for me, I try not to learn everything. I learn something and learn as best as I can, and try not spend all my time looking and exploring other programs or things that might get me side tracked.

Today, I was updating my blog to the later version of dasBlogs and managed to that by myself, which I was pleased with and even put on the TinyMCE editor, which sort of defeats the purpose of what I'm writing about tonight, but never the less will continue.

I updated the blog so I could get this cloud thing working which has eluded me for some time but think I've got it right.

Then while sorting some documents with the latest word, I ended up exploring the option to create blogs from word, and the push them already existing blog applications, but found that dasBlogs">dasBlogs wasn't in the dropdown box, but was in fact able to be added to the site, so set that up to see how it works. It requires me to use so did some further exploration and found BlogDesk and installed it. I also tried wBlogger and it had more features with the editor, but required you to use FTP to upload images, but this little number.... BlogDesk is way cool...

It has some amazing features when it comes to image management and as you can see with this image has been modified on the fly.

It's great for novices or if you're on your laptop without your image manipulation software as it does image adjustments on the fly including resizing, cropping, borders, and more.

One thing I like about the concept of remote blogging is that it doesn't time out. You're working locally until it's time to push the file to the server and not going to fall victim of that horrible time out. I know I'm getting to the stage of copying and pasting whatever I want to post first so that I don't lose all my work, because these days, it's easy to get distracted by phone calls, email, people, customers... you name it, there's a distraction waiting to happen.

What I would like to do is make it easy for me to have an idea, or thought and put it online quickly and I think this is an excellent solution. I know it's probably been around for a long time, but as I said earlier, too many things to learn these days.

I tried the Word option, but I couldn't see where to put in the 'comment' section and I clicked the 'draft' button but with dasBlogs there doesn't appear to be a draft section, or if there is, I've not discovered it yet.

What I want to do is bring my blogs from my website - http://www.xd.com.au over to here and enjoy the many features that true blogs seem to offer. It's a different mind set and I can see why some people don't bother with websites if all they are creating is an online journal. It's quite funky and cool.

All I was looking for was a way to streamline things and I'm glad to say that remote blogs seem to do the trick and I hope this makes management easier overall and if you're interested in easier blogging, then it's worth considering these tools.

Now, this is the first time I've published using BlogDesk - lets see how it all goes.

Nina Meiers