My Computer Issues

Okay, this will be interesting. I'm now gonna try Gaim-Blogger-1.0.0... just to try and mess this blog up as well... hey it's me... :D

It's blogger XML-RPC interface for blogger.com via Gaim ... will be interesting to see how this ends..

The download is either a windows exe (blah) or a source tarball. And it's not zipped as a folder so when you untar it you get all the files in a heap among your other tarballs... CUTE... NOT! (can i do angry smileys with blogger?)

Well, that turns out to be symptomatic of this install... There is no info on HOW to install this crap in the tar. And if you try make...:

blogger.c:1994: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
blogger.c:1994: warning: (near initialization for `info')
blogger.c:1995: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
blogger.c:1995: warning: (near initialization for `info')
blogger.c:1997: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer
blogger.c:1997: warning: (near initialization for `info')
blogger.c:1997: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
blogger.c:2000: error: syntax error before '*' token
blogger.c: In function `init_plugin':
blogger.c:2002: error: `GaimAccountOption' undeclared (first use in this function)
blogger.c:2002: error: `option' undeclared (first use in this function)
blogger.c:2004: warning: implicit declaration of function `gaim_account_option_string_new'
blogger.c:2007: error: request for member `protocol_options' in something not a structure or union
blogger.c:2007: error: request for member `protocol_options' in something not a structure or union
blogger.c:2009: warning: implicit declaration of function `gaim_account_option_int_new'
blogger.c:2012: error: request for member `protocol_options' in something not a structure or union
blogger.c:2012: error: request for member `protocol_options' in something not a structure or union
blogger.c:2014: error: `plugin' undeclared (first use in this function)
blogger.c: At top level:
blogger.c:2019: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `GAIM_INIT_PLUGIN'
blogger.c:2019: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
blogger.c:2019: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
blogger.c: In function `show_post_selector':
blogger.c:624: warning: statement with no effect
blogger.c: At top level:
blogger.c:1543: warning: 'blogger_callback' defined but not used
blogger.c:124: warning: 'blogger_delete_post' declared `static' but never defined
blogger.c:413: warning: 'show_generic_editor' defined but not used
blogger.c:476: warning: 'window_close_cb' defined but not used
blogger.c:482: warning: 'edit_post_destroy_cb' defined but not used
blogger.c:489: warning: 'edit_post_send_cb' defined but not used
blogger.c:566: warning: 'show_post_contents' defined but not used
blogger.c:1026: warning: 'blogger_delete_post' defined but not used
blogger.c:2001: warning: 'init_plugin' defined but not used

etc. etc. etc. I'M wondering if I managed to download the development version... or the crap or trash version... regardless... I don't think a person like me should continue this... it will just hurt more in the end... the reason I'm doing this is because Firefox stopped working ... now it's just behaving erratically (could have been FF that got us the corner-plus cursor/mouse pointer before... it was involved in restart # 1 for the day as well...) oh and Konqueror is not compatible the least with blogger.

Nah, there's gotta be a better way to do this!