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19.3.01: That we humans are able to have a reach that exceeds our grasp.

1.3.01: Telephones. They're like fax machines for voice.

16.2.01: The albedo of the orange.

6.2.01: There's never any milk in the goddamn fridge.

12.1.01: Recurrently Clogged Drains.

20.12.00: Heartburn.

20.11.00: Dinesh D'Souza.

13.11.00: Dog-sweater people.

12.11.00: The movie Dirty Dancing, and anything affiliated with it.

6.11.00: People who insist analog sounds better than digital.

14.9.00: Dead batteries.

16.8.00: Punch the monkey to win! Your internet connection is not optimized!

9.8.00: Those rubber mats people put in the bottom of kitchen sinks. Gross. You know I prefer stainless steel over mildew any day.

6.8.00: One moment of inaccuracy with the mouse can yield an entire day's worth of pain...

11.7.00: Growing up.

9.6.00: Fla-vor-ice makes me cough. Especially the pink ones.

6.6.00: The person who decreed that all women in this city must wear pink.

1.6.00: Ungrounded outlets. Annoying.

5.5.00: I twisted my ankle. Ouch.

13.4.00: People who proudly announce that they're "Politically Incorrect" when what they actually are is rude.

12.4.00: Idiots who don't know the difference between a cover of a song and a remix of a song.

11.4.00: Faxes and Fax Machines... Who invented this crap? And who's under the delusion that I want to see the junk that these things emit?

29.3.00: American culture's total lack of respect for sleep.

18.3.00: I'm so happy that I never have peeves! Grrr....

15.2.00: Sleeping in such a way that I wake up with excruciating back pain. Ouch.

17.1.00: Cleaning. Don't wanna do it.

10.1.00: My watch broke.

4.1.00: Stepping in dog crap.

30.12.99: Peeve Haiku:
My favorite jeans
The felt tip pen has no cap
I sigh at my thigh

21.12.99: Anne Geddes and all those damned baby photos. Grow up people.

18.12.99: Monarchies.

12.12.99: Tourists. They're infesting the entire city and everything is a million times harder to get to.

10.12.99: The fact that being a morning person is rewarded, yet being a night person is punished.

30.11.99: I'm hungry.

22.11.99: Getting back in the habit of blogging.

3.11.99: The unusually motivated construction crew which feels compelled to begin drilling into the floor of the apartment above me at 7:45 (!) AM.

25.10.99: Hippies. Take a bath, hippies.

21.10.99: People who pronounce "Accessories" without the C.

10.10.99: Mariah Carey. Yes, yes, you're from Long Island so you can't help the "Cheap Ho" aesthetic... but don't you feel bad exploiting 11-year-olds who are too young to realize that Dreamlover, Fantasy, Honey and Heartbreaker are the same song?
P.S. Didn't sleeping with the president of the record company get you enough money to buy some real clothes?

4.10.99: Umbrellas. While certainly useful during rain, they are just a pain in the ass.

21.9.99: The young woman who emailed me not realizing the "of the Millenium" below was deliberately gag-inducing.

14.9.99: New Jersey:United States::France:Europe

10.9.99: Radio stations that advertise "Today's Hits-- Without the Rap!" Just be up front with your racism, people, don't cloak it as an issue of taste. The last station I heard with that callout followed it immediately with Everlast's "What It's Like". Grrr.

7.9.99: The Amish. I hate the Amish. Not that they can even read this page...

27.8.99: The Internet Domain Name Registry System

19.8.99: Goddamn Capri-length pants. Ladies, if you can't afford those last few inches of pant leg, just wear a skirt.

12.8.99: People who lick their fingers when they turn a page. This goes double for people who lick their fingers when handling cash.

9.8.99: That guy next to me on the train with the horrible BO.

6.8.99: Utility companies that have monopolies. Especially in communications.

3.8.99: I still have no car.

1.8.99: August has no holidays. And it's hot. Whose idea was this?

31.7.99: Car repairs which are ineffective the first time.

29.7.99: Car repairs.

27.7.99: Manhattan rent costing more than my friends' mortgages.

22.7.99: My own irresponsibility.

15.6.99: 16 year old girls meekly trying to park the SUV's their parents bought them.

1.4.99: Smokers. Again.

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Blogger Pro info

New: I've got a poll on how much Pro should cost, c'mon in and vote. 100% devoid of recount jokes, I promise!

The Party Line

First, the official word from the Blogger.com Products page:

Blogger Pro (coming soon)
Blogger Pro is a collection of optional upgrades for those premium features. These options may include, integrated reader comments, higher security publishing, RSS output, and other cool stuff that we don't want to talk about just yet.

I'm not trying to cover all the features or technical info about Blogger in general, the website already does that pretty well. This is to cover what's new or improved in Pro.

Known Features:

(It's reasonable to assume these will be in Blogger Pro.)

Changing post dates and times. Future-dated posts don't appear until the specified day. (source: Evhead.com)
By-post Archiving: A separate permanent archive page for each post. (source: Evhead.com)
Email posts to a blog (source: This is all over the place, including the Blogger Tour. I'll put a specific link up later.)
Spell checking for posts (source: Evhead.com)
Add reader comments to a blog (source: Evhead.com)
Publish via SCP or FTP (source: somewhere in one of the Blogger Discuss Developer threads, I'll find it later.)
Output to RSS 1.0 or .91. Since these formats require subject and URL values, we can extrapolate the presence of...
Per-post subject and URL fields. (source: Evhead.com)
Archive your blog more frequently, such as daily or perhaps arbitrarily. (source: Also in Blogger Discuss Developer)
Archiving by subject (source: Blogger Discuss)
Additional Date/Time formats
My Personal Favorite Feature: Drafts. I'd write a lot more lengthy posts if I had draft functionality. (source: Blogger Discuss)
The Longest-Awaited Feature award: Automated RSS creation, which has been "coming soon" since the day Blogger launched. (source: Evhead.com)

Maybes:

(These are pie in the sky, or I made them up, or they just seem likely. If not in Pro, maybe in some future release.)

Multiple templates for a single blog. (Output to AvantGo and for desktops simultaneously) (Suggested by Adam Blust)
Additional language support -- We need Esperanto!
No branding required
some functionality for uploading and/or managing images
An external API
more advanced templating functionality
Enhancements to the wireless/AvantGo functionality

Pricing:

Bottom line is: nobody knows yet. I suspect even the folks at Pyra don't know yet. If you want some hints, though, read Ev's excellent thoughts on pricing. That should give you an idea of where they're headed.

Personally, I'm sure I'll be there with credit card in hand as soon as it's all announced. 'Til then, here's a poll for you to voice your opinion:

View results. (Note: This is based on the assumption that we're ignoring concerns about collecting the fees themselves. So pretend there's no PayPal tax, and don't consider whether the amount would be collected monthly, yearly, biannually, etc...)

Other Info

Obviously, you can get a good feel for the mindset and direction of Pro by clicking around at Evhead and Megnut and the Blogger site itself, but there's also a lot of good info to be had in the Blogger Discussion Forums. (This link will show you any thread that mentions Pro.)

If you're interested in outputting your blog to XML and then parsing it on your page, Matt Kingston has a great tutorial on Blogger, XML, and PHP. If you're on a Windows server, you might be interested in the Blogger, XML, and ASP tutorial on the Blogger site.

Yeah, yeah, I know I missed something. Email me and let me know.

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