So, I was finally, finally, finally getting down to blogging about the Matrix. I’ve been sitting here on the couch for the last three hours, writing in my own, brilliant, inimitable style. The ideas were flowing, my markup was precise, and I was just getting down to publishing the first draft for all the world to see. But, just before I get down to clicking that “Save” button, I decide to open a new tab and watch the Reloaded trailer just one more time to catch a quote that I wanted to include.

Now, I love my browser. Anyone who reads Our Story is quite aware of the fact that I think you all should download and install it now. But, Mozilla—as with any browser, or any software for that matter—is bound to fail every now and again. Less than 10 seconds into my trailer, an error message pops up and the Mozilla crashes, taking all those hundreds of hard-wrought words with it into digital oblivion.

After shouting the required explitives at the computer, beating the couch with my fist, and some good, old-fashioned pouting, I decided to go look for blogging client software that would—if nothing else—be able to save my posts with some degree of security greater than an HTML text-entry box. After some brief searching in this directory on Google, I rediscovered w.bloggar.

In addition to a “save” feature, w.bloggar can auto-highlight HTML code, provide me with a completely customizable preview of my entry, let me adjust my editing text size to a much more comfortable 14 point MS Trebuchet font, and even do some spell checking. It also features button-based HTML editing so I can auto-insert less-often used tags without looking them up or using trial-and-error. The software is quite stable (though with some very minor UI glitches) and, better yet, free.

I’m going to try to recall my Matrix entry and recover my sanity now. Happy blogging.