The Onion story that started it all (or at least ended with my rant, below) has this line which is very apropos:
"People of all colors and creeds are welcome in the house of the Lord, even non-believers like Doug," Stovall said. "Perhaps our abiding faith in Jesus and love for our fellow man will, at the very least, inspire him to quit living in his head all the time."
Ooohhh.... Another pointer, this time from aaronland.
I'm not sure how much my code will help, but once I dove in, xml-rpc in Emacs was simple.
So, because of the huge ego boost I got from a couple hundred hits, I decided to go poking around to find out who was actually using Simon Kittle's blogger.el before I updated it. Maybe I could get them to point to me or something.
I only came up with two people (other than Simon Kittle). I'm pretty amazed that one of them was an old college roommate, Shalon Wood. Although he mentions, way at the bottom, that he is using blogger.el, it looks like he hasn't updated since November 11.
The other was John Mignault (from a google cache since I can't find his archives). And I notice that he has a test post on his blog, so maybe he is testing my new blogger.el.
I hate sleep — it means that work takes up more of my life than I want it to. Sleep is good for my kids (so I get a few hours to myself), but, overall, I hate it.
I purused the archives for the blogger list today and came up with the specs for a couple more calls so I'll be able to make it possible for you to go through posted messages on your blog with emacs and edit them.
Then I had a great idea for integrating htmlize.el in the blogger buffer so that you can add faces and whatever to your messages to make them pretty and stuff.
Hey, with Emacs21, you could drag-n-drop pictures into your emacs buffer and have them automatically posted to your site. Coolness!
That's the real trouble with Emacs -- too many navel-gazing programmers intent on programming. Not enough navel-gazing programmers intent on blogging.
While I'm moving to emacs for editting this blog, I'm moving away from emacs for reading my email — gnus just doesn't cut it like I want it to. The biggest pain is that it is too slow for retrieving IMAP mail.
So, I've been using evolution. It is a strange and cumbersome MS Outlook wannabe, but at least it handles IMAP quickly.