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I installed a new CD-RW drive this evening. It only took me 1.5 hours worth of trouble shooting to determine that, even though it looked perfectly fine and normal, the ribbon cable that came with the drive is bad.
I guess that just goes to show that, regardless of how absurd it sounds, you should never [...]

First of all, the reason that Pyrite BlogAuthor didn't ping the trackbacks associated with the Categories had nothing to do with Pyrite BlogAuthor. It was MovableType's fault.
After digging through MovableType code for an hour or so (and seriously considering scooping my eyes out with a spoon as an alternative) I found the problem. publishPost, the [...]

All of the guests at our wedding, except one (thank you Amanda), didn't include their address when they signed our guest book. If you attended the wedding, please email me (or Jess) your address.
Thank you.

While Pyrite BlogAuthor does indeed manage to Post to my MovableType powered weblog, it seems like it either doesn't send Category pings, or adds the Categories AFTER it requests the entry pings to be sent. Therefore, category based TrackBack pings don't occur unless you edit the item and then save again. This is not desireable.
Aside [...]

This post is being written using Pyrite BlogAuthor, a full-featured python based weblog client supporting MovableType, Nucleus, Blogger v1, and others.
I currently use a custom built, GPG enabled mail to blog gateway when I want to post without using the MovableType web-based interface. If this application works properly, it's flexibility and feature set would be [...]

When I first moved into this apartment last July, I noticed most of
the people leaving their trash in front of their doors when I left for
work in the morning. I decided to see what happens to it so, the next
morning, I left my own bag of trash outside my door. When I came home
that afternoon, [...]

According to Jennelle,
doing a search for "Pot Smokers" in Yahoo returns me a result. More
specifically, my page on — yup, you guessed it — pot
smokers.
Is it 4:20 yet?

If you're using PEAR's XML_RPC_Server and are receiving errors with
your non-PHP client, there's a reason why. There's a bug in
XML_RPC_Server, that, many clients simply ignore. However, some clients,
in particular xmlrpc-c for C have
big issues with this. When using this particular client, the error "-503
Unclosed Token" is received.
It's easy to fix. Open up pear/XML/RPC/Server.php. Search for [...]

Phil Ringnalda posed, as always, an
interesting
question in regard to Inklog and its nodes that warrants a detailed
response. Phil wrote:
It sounds to me like you are heading down the right path [with
InkLog]: I have very little interest in feeds, and an intense interest in
items. Non-Inklog, you would have a feeds table to keep track of [...]

Recently my boss left our group for a lateral position in another
department. He didn't really give us any indication that he was leaving,
until the day that he told us he was gone. About a week later, he and
his new boss offered me a position in their group.
It isn't a dream job. Not by any means. [...]