Pretty much as the title says.
Pretty nice feature of Word actually.
So I discover that Word 07 has, in addition to its horrendous interface (getting used to that) a nice blogging feature and my first thought is... nice, from now I can type my blog in Word and, in addition to all its features (I am actually a pretty good speller so no, it's not the spell check I have in mind, but rather, if you must know, niceties such as automatically CAPitalizing the first letter after period and such) in addition to these things, I realize, a prime result will be for people, bloggers, let's call them, to write their message then perhaps, at the end, to decide it's not quite for everyone and instead of clicking 'publish' to merely click 'save'.... which in turn would make the actual blogs even more artificial, even less spontaneous...
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like there was this guy, they talked about on NPR, who kept a journal since 1972, chronicling almost every minute of his life since then. Died the other day, leaving behind 94 or so boxes of journals. Donated to some university, that sealed them for fifty years. Fifty years from now some researcher will revel in the quaintness-quotient of a guy's meteorological notations and methodical notes on how much orange juice he had drunk while reading the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and perhaps write a paper, thesis or book on it all.
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Oh, cut the guy some slack, he was an English teacher after all.
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