Thursday, April 12, 2007

How I Finally Updated My Blog via Email

I have made it my goal to accomplish everything that one would usually do on their PC, on my "multimedia computer," the Nokia N70. This is the beginning of this endeavor, and thus far, it has been a real pain in the ass!

First, I had to find this sad old Blogger account, that hadn't been used, or updated, in about 6 months. That was a chore in and of itself. I couldn't remember my user name. I also couldn't remember my password. Finally, after many hours of banging my head against the proverbial wall, I realized that there was an option called "forgot your username too?" or something to that effect.

Voila! Username emailed to your email account.

Now, I can access my Blogger account and dashboard, but... How to post to this blog on the go? Turns out Blogger has this option built in, and all one has to do is email a post to the blog... You simply email, go@blogger.com, and it will send you back an email with a confirmation number of sorts, and you enter that into go.blogger.com.

So yeah, I go to do that. It says, "Hooray! We found your account, would you like to keep sending your new posts to hfgb999.blogspot.com [or some such shit] or would you like to send them to an existing account?"

Well, I want to send them to phonophiliac.blogspot.com, so I choose this option, hit continue! Operamini, in its wiseness (no doubt helped by go.blogspot.com) decides to Reload Page! Yea! I hit continue again, Reload Page, again, Reload Page.

I then threw my phone on the ground, and broke my beautiful Thinkoutside Bluetooth Keyboard. Not really, but I was pissed.

As of writing this, in Mobisystems Office Suite, I still have not been able to update phonophiliac.blogspot.com. So, I am currently archiving to my phone for later upload.

I just cant understand how a service designed for mobile posting can be so difficult when using a MOBILE.

Rant over. Hopefully, because of the widespread viewing this blog receives, these issues will be rectified ASAP.

-Mike

Edit: I finally figured it out. Under the account settings of the blog you want to send to, you will find, egad!, "email." Just go in there, define the email address and you're ready to go. Very, very simple.

I feel like a total idiot... But, hell, that's nothing new to me.

Anyways, if anyone out there is struggling with this (probably not), then now you know...

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