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Testing Blogjet's 'Blogthis' internet explorer plugin.

w.bloggar was dissapointing because of its buggyness, lets try Blogjet instead.

Lets see how it handles some pictures.

This picture is located locally on my computer, but Blogjet should upload it to my ftp once I hit post. Blogjet uses the file:/// prefix.

This picture is a copy-paste from a web adres, and includes a link to a larger version:

This picture was added explicitly with a url as source, uses the http:// prefix

After reviewing this post a few times, editing it, changing stuff, I am very satisfied.

However, Blogjet also seems to exibit the same GetNewPosts bug that w.Bloggar also has. 

...The HP repair man shows up.

Hey remember that I was looking for a cool tool to post blog with?

Well hows about Bloggar! It will actually do .text, not to mention every other blog uit there,  and there is even a plugin for Sharpreader! Way cool.

Will give a try tonight, as I cant get it to talk to this site at work here, cause of ISA server and its fucked up caching-only mode...  grrr..  MSN wont work either.

...They pull you back in.

Its Thursday, and that represents almos the end of the 3 weeks I have been covering for the Sysadmin at this place. I have been dealing with all kinds of software, mail and network problems, but nothing out of the ordinary.  That is.. until yesterday, when one of the infrastructure servers crapped out after a reboot. Defective harddisk..  typical.

Not being able to find any sort of backup for that thing, I had to get a lift to the location in question (as I have no car), pick up the server, then had to wait an hour before I could take it back with me.  I havn't louched it, just went strait to configuring a replacement server. Now this is above and beyond what I was hired to actually do..  you dont expect the holiday replacement admin to start replacing servers.. but no one could work and I was up to a challenge. 

Spent all of yesterday preparing the server (which in reality, is a HP Vectra P3 PC), and setting it up on location, and thankfully, all of its VPN and RAS stuff worked in one go.

However, because of a very choddy logon-script implementation, still no one could work. A couple of mappings simply weren't created in login scipt, so I spent the rest of the day modifying these on the DC, aswell as in Novell (first time actually doing Novell), and by the end of the day actually got everything working again. The line of business apps could again run properly from the Terminal Server via the VPN server.

Only to walk in this morning to find that the VPN server itself stopped working at midnight, probably due to a power-supply failure.

This means that the entire organisation now cannot use their primairy applications as well as Lotus mail, that they also run of the terminal server.. 

*sigh*

I just hope that with a new PS, it will run again normally... I simply dont know enough about the infrastructure here to rebuild it. (and there are no backups of the installation either).

Nothing left to do now but wait for HP's repair guy. And then try to patch up the mess that is left.