I was thrilled when Userland's Jake Savin announced a WYSIWYG Radio and Manila  in-browser editor for Mozilla.   That was, until I realized “Mozilla” didn't include Safari, and I would have to use Firebird to really take advantage of it.

Don't get me wrong–I like Firebird.  Or at least, I like Firebird
when it works.   But Firebird on Mac OS X is a little flaky
sometimes, and doesn't behave like Safari in some important ways.

One of them is the last page cache–particularly in the case of the
WYSIWYG editor.  In Safari, if I accidentally click on a link or
launch a new page in the window I'm typing in, I can back-button to it
and the content is still there where I left off.  Not so in
Firebird. (Or at least in the WYSIWYG editor in Firebird.)

For instance–yesterday, while typing a fairly long post, I clicked on
an entry in my browser history to check for the URL.  Whoops, it
went to the page.  I arrowed back, and 20 minutes worth of typing
was gone.

Now I know why Dave always fixes his posts after he publishes them.

So, I cut my last ties with Toadnet
yesterday, removing my last domains from hosting there.  So far,
it hasn't been pretty; they deleted my email accounts there while DNS
was still mapped to them, so most of my inbound e-mail is
bouncing.  The DNS change seems to have only partially rolled out
so far, so I'm still in the dead zone; I'm sure everybody on the
mailing lists I was subbed to are just loving me right now.  I had
been hoping to keep things set up there until the transition was
complete–I had paid them for service through September 22, after
all–but now I've just shut the whole shebang down completely.



On the bright side, my spam has decreased drastically.



Meanwhile, I've had to do some cleaning up of the website heirarchy on my remaining web host,  Powweb.  
Since  I now essentially have  five domains pointed at the
same server, I had to reproduce the PHP magic I'd used on Toadnet to
host multiple domains with their own directory structures.  That
meant moving the buzzword-compliant
weblog to a new directory and recoding the root home page; I preserved
a copy of the archived pages of the weblog in their original place in
the heirarchy so that permalinks would still work (as if anybody's
actually permalinked to that content); I'll probably deprecate that
configuration in a month or two when I decide I need the disk space for
something else.