A friend just wrote to ask whether anything was wrong, given that I haven’t been blogging here and that I haven’t been writing on Wildmind.

Actually, I’ve just been busy teaching at my local university — a six-week stint I do most years. I’ll say more about that later.

For now I just wanted to comment that I’m writing this post on my iPod Touch using the new Wordpress application. I’ve been checking the app store morning, noon, and night since the app was first announced a couple of weeks back and was excited to see that it had finally arrived.

I can’t comment too much on how it’s working given that this is my first go, but I did have problems with the app crashing when I as entering my blog details — not a promising start. But since getting past that hurdle the app seems to be working well. Now I can blog under the covers at night!

[added from my computer] Well, it seems the app doesn’t allow you to edit a post once it’s been published, so that seems like a major drawback. Actually, the idea of a Wordpress application seems fundamentally flawed given that the iPhone renders websites beautifully. I can simply use my iPod to log into my blog as I would from my computer, and then I have full access to the blog’s functionality. I’ve a feeling that a vast amount of midnight oil was burned getting this app ready for prime-time, but I’m not sure why. True, the admin area isn’t terribly well set up for blogging on an iPhone, but that’s just a layout problem. I’d imagine it would be easy enough to have a stylesheet that’s set up for an iPhone and that the website would switch to automatically when the user agent is Mobile Safari.