Garr, blogging clients never work the way they're supposed to.

• First it drops me into a "web layout view" that won't even let me enter a title, on top of that as I start typing my post it appears in a 5 character column. ROFL. Great introduction to the tool! NOT.
• Now I'm trying to delete posts and I can't even do that from the editor interface… I have to frigging click "more…" under recent posts to do it! I friggin hate poor UI design.
• Insert picture? Where do I insert one from the web? God, the frigging insert menu! not the image icon. Garr!
• Categories… it doesn't cope with the number I have and I can't select many of them. Needs a scroll down, drop-down menu.
• They're using <font> tags for colours. Style attributes please peoples. There's no way in the WYSIWYG editor to get rid of a colour in html once you add it to text.

Now this is scary. They're allowing users to assign ANY font from the format menu. Garr, I look forward to more hideous myspace like creations.

I wish I could add categories as I post messages. Thats one major bitch I have with nearly all blogging client.

I'd like auto-save to draft. I consider this mission critial stuff. The last thing I want to do is lose something important.

Positives:

• It looks sexy. I love the icons in the toolbars.
• Link creation lets me rel-tag and nofollow.
• I look forward to Atom Publishing Protocol support.

Why-o-why does no one ever get the basics right though?

"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. I have tolerated a lot," says Engelbart of his life. Reader's Digest paid Engelbart $35 to publish that quote, more than he was paid for many of his revolutionary inventions.

Learning about the work Brad Neuberg is doing on the Hyperscope project and seeing the digital world through Doug Engelbart is absolutely fascinating. So much to take in.
Watch Brad's screencast on the Augment system Doug and his team developed way back in the 60's in aide of augmenting human intelligence. The original presentation hosted on Google Video is absolutely fascinating stuff.