Comments on: A blogger’s worst nightmare

By: David

David — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:04:04 +0000

Instead of “Failure Notice,” how about “Hugs and Kisses”?

By: WaltRibeiro

WaltRibeiro — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:49:17 +0000

I agree Failure notice is harsh. They should lighten it up by writing Failur3 notic3.

That way it keeps the point, but brightens the tone :)

By: lisarex

lisarex — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:26:32 +0000

Then again....

Not seconds after I read this blog post, @clairethomey Twittered "Fabulous. MacBook Pro power cord died. I've got 4 blog posts locked in my MarsEdit as local drafts until my new one gets shipped. *fail*"

Oh dear! Life is a no-win situation sometimes, isn't it?

I've also had WordPress present me with that ominous error message, but my blog post was there. I tend to compose posts in a Mail window, then paste to WP when I'm ready to finesse.

By: Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:41:12 +0000

I've used MarsEdit before and I just didn't like the formatting. Perhaps I'll give it another try.

By: iamshimone

iamshimone — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:36:53 +0000

Another option is to use an offline editor such as MarsEdit (OSX) which connects to your blog directly. I'm sure similar tools are available for PC users. Local drafts FTW!

By: Stephen Michael Kellat

Stephen Michael Kellat — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:33:29 +0000

Yikes! I operated a WordPress blog once upon a time. Nowadays I use Nanoblogger as I don't want too many operating bits of the server.

I'm glad to hear the auto-save rescued you.