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April 29, 2008

Testing the ScribeFire blogging extension for Firefox; Lazy crockpot chicken

Still in timeless vacationland, I'm posting this as a test of ScribeFire, the WYSIWYG blogging extension for Firefox.

It's slick -- when I first opened it, it had autodiscovered my blog software and used its API to hook into it. The blogs list displayed on the right panel, and an open entry window already showed "Publish to 'Projo Subterranean Homepage News' " as the label on the the big bottom button.

The interface is surprisingly intuitive: Formatting buttons were obvious, the code preview a tab away, tag windows and the date on the right.

It published the first draft of this post without breaking a sweat, logging me in automatically. (Since it integrates with Firefox, popping up as a half-window over wherever you are, it has access to Password Manager.)

The smartest feature I think I'm seeing: When I define text and click the link icon, the link I've just copied is already filled in in the link window. No need to paste it -- another feature of its FF integration.

I haven't quite figured out images yet -- especially how to make that screenshot pop up to a larger image -- without hand-coding it. More basic, if I copy an image from my graphics program, I get a file:/// URL, so on upload it's broken.

In all other respects, this is my new favorite extension. Here's its homepage.

Modern parboiling: Sunday, we had a three-pound family pack of skinless chicken thighs we had to cook, even though we were heading out to a party at a neighborhood restaurant where there'd be appetizers.

I put them all in the crockpot, in layers, and sprinkled each layer with salt, pepper, garlic powder and curry powder, and added 1/2 cup of water.

I intended to cook them for 5 or 6 hours on low, but instead, I flicked the crockpot to High, which I only discovered 90 minutes later when we returned from the party. Then I turned it to low, and gave it two and a half more hours.

They were tender. flavorful and delicious, and gave us a rich stock as a bonus. We stood around the platter with forks picking at it.

Last night, I coarsely chopped what survived and tossed it into a saucepan with a jar of turkey gravy, and opened a can of cranberry sauce.

Another bee story, despite the headline. Blair Man’s Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound Alcohol Related. From Altoona, Pa.

According to police 57-year-old David Walls had been drinking when he tried to shoot down some bees flying above him using a .22 caliber revolver loaded with buckshot. Walls ended up shooting himself in the left hand causing soft tissue damage.

No stings reported.
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