Finally, Picasa can post to Blogger Beta

Since I upgraded my blogs to blogger beta in August, I've had nothing but problems when I try to post pictures to the blogs using Picasa. But I saw others with utterly no problems after the October Picasa patch which enabled dual logins to either Blogger or Blogger Beta.

Why? Because of this obscure point: If Backlinks are enabled in your Blogger beta blog (how's that for a tongue twister???), Picasa cannot post pictures there. Thanks to http://knownissues.blogspot.com/search/label/picasa :

You cannot post from Picasa to Blogger in beta if you have backlinks turned on.

OK now that I've turned off the backlinks to my baby's blogs, the pictures come alive again!

Using the power of Blogger Beta

From a `user' of blogging technology and not really a power blogger geek, Blogger Beta's new features are a god-send. I especially like the enhanced way that archived posts are presented in the javascript applet on the sidebar. And the organization of the page elements enable code to be put into a neat little box in authoring mode, makes things so much more clean and configurable.

Here we are - the Tech-Biased Perspective in a new look.

Writely Integration with Blogger/Blogspot

I've been curious how Google integrated writely with Blogger/Blogspot, and here is the result (if it appears).

We can easily put in tables:

Row 1	Column 2, row 1
Row 2	These table cells can be sized to content!

Best thing about Writely was that you can cut and paste with all the hyperlinks intact. Can this be done here?

From Internet Explorer:

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From Excel: (table deleted coz can't publish to blog if it's here)

Looking better!

What about pictures?

Wow! Now just hope that it can be pumped into blogger!

Under Blog, you can set your blog settings, and sure enough, Blogger is the easiest one to handle.

Well, life is good! But damn, I'm getting this error from blogger: "object reference not set to an instance of an object"

A search in the Writely forums http://forum.writely.com/showthread.php?t=489&highlight=object+reference+-set reveals that I'm not alone. This seems to be a blogger problem and SOMETIMES IT WORKS. Seems that if you try like tons of times, it might work once. So here I go pumping and pumping .... If you see this post, means I've succeeded.

OK I must have tried a hundred times, and 2 different errors came out of it.