Experiment
Several years ago John Brunner (as I recall) wrote one of his Almost-End-of-the-World novels about the internet. In that novel the ‘net was a metaphor of a universe of everything, good and bad, good and evil. Note the confluxion of meanings of “good” here.
As I remember the end of existence is averted by the fortuitous acquisition of just the right piece of software and accompanying information from the ‘net. My situation has a considerably more banal parallel.
For some reason when the repository pushed out the actual release of Fire Fox 3, Scribe Fire went bonkers. Despite messages to its developers/parents on the nature of the problem and various work-arounds on my part to its new want of deleting the text of blots before posting them, I have lost more blots this week than I have successfully posted. And the ones that did get posted were a matter of saving the blot, posting it, logging on to the on-line editor, recalling the saved blot, and pasting the contents from the latter to the former. Sadly however, the save function has also become erratic.
I was thus somewhat enlivened this morning by an article/blot on MakeUseOf [Link] this morning comparing ScribeFire and another FireFox add-in Deepest Sender, which is an on-line or live blog editor. Quite frankly, the article/blot is pretty much a pan of Deepest Sender but I installed anyway because in my situation it can be no worse than ScribeFire inasmuch as the latter does nothing but add to my stress level.
So far the experience is not negative. If anything, it is positive in that Deepest Sender is rather minimalist compared to ScribeFire which seems to have acquired the MegaHard Office Suite disease of having to be everything possible to everyone and unworkable for almost everyone but the most vapid and superficial of users.
The crucial question, of course, is whether the beast will post or not in adequate entirety.
