I am almost fit to burst with techno excitement, and so should you. I just learnt that the blog software, Rapidweaver for Mac has been updated and is due to enter a whole new era of online slickness in the near future. Break out the winegums, we are having a party.

Version 3.6.7

I have missed a few Rapidweaver updates recently, so I just downloaded the latest - the seventh reiteration of the 6th update of the third version. When put like that, in full, no one should say that a simple numbering system for software is arcane. Anyway, it is a tweaked version of a tried and tested package, so not exactly a mind blowing wow experience, but it is exporting files quicker. Noice.

Version 4

As all Windows users know, Macs are all about form over function, so it came as no surprise to learn from the Rapidweaver review by Ars Technica, that the new layout for version 4 looks pretty cool. If nothing else, even if the quality of my content remains slightly gray and banal, at least I will feel better inside when I blog.

The biggest buzz for me though, is the even speedier new exporting option that is promised. I don't know how it is going to work, but it has to be slick if it is even slicker than what is going on right now.

To be brutally honest when compared with Wordpress, the publishing side of things is a dog. I put up with a lot of wasted time and hanging around when I use this Rapidweaver dealio, waiting for it to go through the whole site looking for new stuff that, to my simplistic mind, is sitting there right at the top of the pile begging to be noticed first.

For the record, I did sort of make a promise to myself way back when I first installed it. Rapidweaver was a new product, a long way from being perfect, but it had potential, so I agreed to stick by the authors as they worked their butts off getting the software right. To be fair, they have doggedly improved every aspect, especially the search engine optimisation side of things, and generally kept the workflow simple, drag and drop easy, but powerful. Kudos to the Brits

With version 4 in the works, hopefully it will be a high performance daddy, but still have the coolest and slickest interface out there for bloggers and web designers. We shall see.

I will now press publish and go make 7 cups of tea and bake a few cakes too, while the current version of Rapidweaver does its thing.

Update: it exported my homepage about 4 times quicker than yesterday, but the Verizon connection crapped out when it was publishing, so this is coming to you 12 hours later than planned!

Hey all, don't forget, it is Administration Professionals Day. In case you didn't know, there are 4.1 million secretaries and assistants churning through forms, making coffee, and asking us if there is anything else they can do for us today! Despite the rumors, they aren't all as kinky as Maggie here in The Secretary, nor as committed as those working in emergency services. In fact for most of the 4 million, it is a regular work life, so these people deserve a special day of hyper inflated cards from Hallmark and a bunch of flowers!

Thinking about the admin professionals I have encountered recently, aka shit head Government employees at City Hall who have snubbed, sneered and prevented me from talking to the right person, all cards should start "Hey, remember it is our money that keeps your lardy ass in a job, not the other way round, so be nice."

Admin professionals who don't ever change their ways should do the right thing and sacrifice their own special 24 hour celebration, making way for Victims of Customer Abuse Day. That way, tens of millions of us could get a card to compensate us for mis-treatment voice by the losers regularly misdirecting phone calls and pushing paper from A to B and back again

Personally, when I saw April 23, Administration Professionals Day , I thought, "Wtf, what about my special day?".

Do you have a special day? I vote for Sons and Daughters Day, to compensate us for being born into this horrible world uninvited.