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The best way to publish your content on multiple blogs is to use an effective third-party post editor. The added bonus is that your important thoughts are backed up on your PC before you even publish them.

If your favorite unstable blog host collapses or its owner abandons you, you can find someplace like Vox and repost your entire life.

Depending on your capabilities and experience, the two best programs I've found are Alleycode and w.bloggar. 

For advanced bloggers, Alleycode offers HTML, XHTML, CSS and PHP scripting options.

For everyone else, w.bloggar is a basic WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor that's simple enough for beginners yet robust enough for the most experienced blogger.

Like everything else in life, a little planning up front can eliminate a crisis before it occurs.

Blog responsibly; back-up up front.

Nothing against folks who have or can make plenty of time for blogging but no mater how much I would love to live a Peter Pan lifestyle, the real back-breaking, mind-numbing world makes it difficult for me to post anywhere with any regularity.

Long ago my primary blog turned into a monstrous time-consuming compendium of reality TV screencaps that's months behind and while it is my blog and I can post whatever I want, I'm afraid my ramblings, rants, musing, and social observations are of little interest to the freaks and deviants (like me) with a healthy appetite for scantily clad Big Brother and Survivor hotties.

So, with a long weekend to celebrate the independence of our once great nation that we're allowing to be looted and pillaged by the government that's supposed to ensure democracy and protect us I finally had some time to share some of the aforementioned ramblings and rants.

Unfortunately when I popped in to catch up with folks at EFx2 Blogs and wax philosophical about my burning thoughts (I can't remember what they were but they were certainly burning at the time) the site was pretty much down. Yeah, the community chat was alive and the under-utilized forums were working but the blogs were down. A few of the Community Leaders have done a good job of sharing what's known (not much) about the down-time and pointing people toward the EFx2 Bloggers groups at Vox & Facebook and BlogNomads.com.

But enough babble, on to the point...

If you strip away the details, in it's purest sense,  my job is basically communicating. I've always been a sporadic blogger because after spending all day every day communicating I don't feel like sitting down in front of another monitor and communicating even more. That's why my TypePad blog evolved into a psychotically huge collection of screencaps. Well that and the insane number of PG-13 pervs that share my RTV fetish. But I'm still babbling damn it!

Sporadic blogging; ModBlog; EFx2; slow painful deaths.

ModBlog was offline when I had long overdue burst of inspiration, several times; hell, every time! Same with EFx2 last September and again now I'm inspired er... was inspired and the buzzards are circling overhead; you can almost smell the rotting flesh.

Since all bloggers think themselves erudite and sagacious with unique perspectives (I know I do) I'm thinkin' maybe it's me, maybe I'm the cause, maybe I should either blog regularly or not at all. After all, as a blogger, it is all about me, right?

So here's to old friends at new places and what I hope will be the last exodus. It's tough to keep track of everyone, but there's plenty of room and civic services in this neighborhood!

Grind it.

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Show us a ticket stub from a great concert you saw.

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The Tragically Hip's November '96 concert at Cobo Arena was released as "Live Between Us" so it's laminated for posterity onto the CD jacket. Great band, great show, one of the greatest live albums of all time.

What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season?

Great question, especially since the summer season is rapidly drawing to a close with season 3 of Kyle XY ending last week and only one more episode of The 4400 left. For the uninitiated, both shows are worthwhile and much better many "regular season" offerings. I'm a Big Brother fan too but like past seasons, it's become predictable and anticlimactic at this point so I've about had enough of it and am more than ready to get back to my fall favorites and some very promising new additions to an otherwise pathetic broadcast schedule.

Here are the shows I'm most looking for ward to:

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If' you enjoy great television and interacting with others like yourself and aren't already a member of the TV.com community you should check it out.

Turn on, tune in; TV's a drug

In the event that members of the EFx2 blogging community are looking for a new temporary or permanent home, I started this group so everyone can keep in touch as they wish. I encourage you to give Vox a try. It's not quite EFx2, but its features are much more community focused than any other free blog host out on the Net.

Take Vox for a spin or just share your current blog information with your friends.

Since the office is closed on on Good Friday it's casual Thursday. This week I'm sporting a nostalgic piece of Hipstory I picked up on the first night of the back to back Tragically Hip and Friends concerts at the Air Canada Centre December 31, 1999. The two-night extravaganza featured about twenty different bands and is affectionately known among Hip-fans as the Hip2K concert.The back-print includes four converging arrows that form a stylized "H" detailing the venue and dates.

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You can check out the back as well as the rest of my Tragically Hip memorabilia here.

Since TeamVox has been kind enough to add several features I (we) have been looking for, it's only right that I check 'em out. So, if this works as it should, you can listen to Scottitude Radio from Last.FM right here on my Vox page.

If it works, let me know what you think of some the best music you'll ever hear!

Nicely done, Vox. This is definitely good.