My first attempt to start a research-related blog...

[fpb]

...has been an utter demoralizing failure. Either I don't understand Blogger software, or it is no damn good for anything a bit text-heavy. I completely lost two days' hard work. It was a bloody good article, too, and to rewrite anything a second time is, to me, an agonizing experience.

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

It does seem to work in general, so we should probably figure out the particulars of your case which prevented it from working. First of all, what was the originating application for the text, and which browser were you using?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It originated from the Gutenberg.org website, and I was using Internet Explorer.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. You might want to try Firefox or Chrome. I wouldn't expect it to work with Internet explorer.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

That is, I wouldn't expect pasting of formatted text in the Blogger rich editor widget to work. It does some fancy things which I wouldn't expect Internet Explorer to be able to support well.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I haven't been using Firefox since I found that it would not allow me to open zipped downloaded software, but only to save it. However, I'll try - once I have the time, and the nervous strength to try and rewrite the lost article. The main problem is simply this: that I find trying to rewrite material from the start a nerve-shredding experience.