Monthly Archives: September 2004

MarsEdit with WordPress

Ranchero Software just introduced MarsEdit which is in 1.0beta. It’s a competitor to other blog posting utilities like ecto.

It was a charm to get working with WordPress after I found instructions online. In fact, this post was written in MarsEdit

Let me quote the instructions for posterity:

In the (excellent) online help there are special instructions for a number of different blogs but there is not one for WordPress.

To get wordpress to work, the rpc url will be the home url plus “/xmlrpc.php”.

The blog-ID should be set to ‘default’ – it seems to hang if you set it to a number (like 1).

Also note that future posts will be retrieved even though they are not yet visible on the blog (in other words the xmlrpc is not filtering – this is not a MarsEdit problem).”

MarsEdit

Pens as Lock Picks

As I saw today on Boing Boing, you can open expensive U-Locks using simple Bic pens. I was skeptical, but there were numerous reports that it was possible as well as few videos showing that it could be done.

I still doubted that it could be that easy.

Using a bic pen as a lock pick

Well, it wasn’t that easy, but I managed to do it on the 3rd pen I chose (the first two bic pens had diameters too small.. the 3rd was a freebie pen that the U gave out).