Testing

Just checking to see if Blogsy is back to playing nice.

I guess it is.

Yay.

I thought I might make this my general/game design blog, but it's not playing well with my Blogsy app anymore. Despite what I said earlier, I might just go back to WordPress. I'd rather not be shackled to a computer in order to blog. Writing them offline (and not having to cut and paste to post) was rather nice, and crossposting was very easy.

So unless I can fix the issue, I'll go back to WordPress and let this one fall by the wayside.

Meanwhile, I just published my second article on HubPages. I've got a couple more ideas for articles, and then I'll see where I go from there. I want to do a couple "game design workshops" building off the racing game examples I used in the Game Design 101 article.

I can never end posts to my satisfaction, so I'm just gonna stop because that's all I have to say for now.

Just a quick post to sort out my "I have too many blogs" issue.

Since I already have a general blog and a Crifmer Creations blog on Blogger or Blogspot or whatever they're calling themselves these days, I'm going to put the WordPress blog on hold. I'm not deleting it yet, but I don't see the need for the duplicate blog.

I love this Blogsy app, bee tee doubleyoo. Makes blogging very easy. Now I just need to make my posts interesting and I'll be all set.

Also, I broke my glasses. Just one of the earwires on the frame, though. Nothing a little glue can't fix.

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We cleaned the house today. Mostly. Well, my fiancee mostly cleaned the house. I went out and bought snacks and beer. I did some vacuuming, though.

My brother and his fiancee are coming over later to hang out and play games, thus the house cleaning.

I discovered today that using the mobile version of Google Docs sucks. Safari can't really support the full desktop version of Google Docs, so I'm a little out of luck for now if I want to edit those docs on my iPad. Unfortunately, I want to edit those docs on my iPad.

I've given in to the cloud computing era, and I put all my stuff on Google Docs now. I just get the writing done, and then convert it to Word or whatever when I'm ready to edit and do cool formatting. It makes it easier to work from home or the office, and I no longer have to carry or email the document back and forth. That's how I wrote the HubPages article, and how I'm writing the next one, but I just discovered I can't do it sitting on the couch in my living room. I need to go boot up the computer instead. So I'll just blog about it.

Sherlock Holmes is on HBO. Never seen it, but I hear it's not bad.

I had a few ideas after my first article, so I at least have a few game design things to write. Maybe I'll get some more ideas after that, and there'll be enough content for a site or something. We'll see, I guess. I'm not sure I'd review games, but maybe a deconstruction or two if a game has a particularly interesting mechanic to it.

One of the things my fiancee and I were talking about was a beer review blog, mainly so that we can keep track of what we've had and liked and didn't like. I'm going to start another account on HubPages for this. Who knows, maybe people will find it useful. Like everything else, I'm just doing this for me, because it's fun, and if something comes of it, that's awesome.

Which Blog?

So I downloaded this new app called Blogsy.

It's pretty cool.

Right now, I'm blogging in my uber-comfy bed on my iPad, and unlike the WordPress app, I can publish this post on both my WordPress account and on my Blogger account. So this begs the question: which account do I use?

I started the WordPress account because I got the WordPress app, but now I can use the iPad for Blogger, too.

But Crifmer, I hear you ask, couldn't you have used the iPad with Blogger anyway via Safari? Well, yes, I answer, but it's not nearly as user-friendly as using a native app. For instance, with an app I can see what I'm typing a lot better. And with Blogsy, I can drag and drop content like pictures and video right into the blog post and format easily. Not that I've done that yet. This is only my first post with Blogsy.

But I am going to make an effort to blog more. It's funny, talking about blogging seems to be my number one topic in my blogs. How I'm not really a blogger and never know what to talk about. But I think having an app that lets me write and save local drafts to be published later will help a lot. The WordPress app was paranoid about being connected to the internet, and the one time I tried to write offline, it ate half the post in a nervous fit.

My renewed interest in blogging comes from a recent writing spurt I've been having. I broke through some writer's block and started work on my (latest) novel again, and that's been going very well. It feels great to be writing again, even if it's something rambly like this. The other day I stumbled onto the content sites HubPages and Squidoo, and yesterday I wrote my first article for HubPages. According to my brother (a soon to be Master of Writing at Rutgers University), I should be blogging. So I'm warming up and rambling. I don't know that I'd be able to sustain a regular blog, but I enjoyed writing my article, and I'll try my hand at some more. Maybe I will find that I have enough in me for a blog.

But writing this post was fun, anyway.