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title: "Bookmark blogging from Safari via a quick hack"
date: 2003-02-04T21:12:36-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/02/04/ooodoh/
author: Les Orchard
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# Bookmark blogging from Safari via a quick hack

<p>Well, it doesn't look like I'm getting the new Java-based <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PersonalWebProxy">PersonalWebProxy</a> code released last week or soon this week, but if you'd like <strong>something</strong> to poke fun at, try this...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/BookmarkBlogger">BookmarkBlogger</a> - a quick hack for Safari users to generate blog entries from bookmark folders.</p>
<p>Hope it's useful, bet it's ugly, but it was fun in the making.</p>
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                <a href="#comment-221088862" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-02-04T22:01:02">2003-02-04T22:01:02</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Heya.  Running into stumbling blocks or just getting distracted?</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221088866" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-02-05T13:02:03">2003-02-05T13:02:03</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Mostly just distraction and at-work/at-home business.  That, and the urge to fix just that "one last thing" before I let anyone have it.  But I think by this weekend, I'll make the mess available, no matter what shape it's in.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221088868" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-03-04T19:25:40">2003-03-04T19:25:40</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I'm slow and stupid. Suppose that I'm running Mac OSX, want to start up a blosxom installation on my office machine at http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi (with blosxom text files in what the office machine sees as: /Library/Webserver/Documents/blosxom). I then remotely mount the office machine's hard disk on my own laptop (at, I think, "/Volumes/Office Hard Disk".) I then want to use Bookmark blogging from Safari to put stuff from my bookmarks into the blosxom remote directory.

What, exactly, are the path arguments that go with java -jar BookmarkBlogger.jar ?

Brad DeLong</div>
            
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            <div class="content">I think this is what you'd need:

java -jar BookmarkBlogger.jar "BLOG BOOKMARKS" "/Users/{yourusername}" "/Volumes/Office Hard Disk/Library/Webserver/Documents/blosxom"

Just make sure to fill in the "yourusername".  Extra credit points to anyone to hacks this to use a proper config file :)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Is it just mine, or did this break with the java update from apple this week? It worked when i first test, pre update. But after runing the update, it hasn't worked, but its not giving any errors or anything. I even deleted the seen file, so it should have picked up everything. But nothing  happens. Any ideas?</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Scratch that, a reboot and its working like a charm.</div>
            
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