Sometimes you will hit a dead or end or one of your blogs may malfunction so that you cannot update it.
It's usually best to do something different but if you can't stand the idea of going outside and the TV guide is saying, “No”, then you can do something else to add content to a blog and keep it live.
Yesterday was such a dismal day and I stumbled upon autohotkey
Once you have installed the software it will automatically run at Windows startup and then you can write and call ahk scripts, either at startup or with a mouse click.
Here's an example of an ahk script - the classes in the html relate to my personal modifications to the blogger stylesheet, substitue your own - the semi-colon (;) indicates a comment line:
#Warn ; Recommended for catching common errors. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
^!':: ; ctrl alt ' calls this
Send ‘’
SendInput {left}{left}{left}{left}{left}{left}{left}
return
^!2:: ; ctrl alt 2 calls this
Send “”
SendInput {left}{left}{left}{left}{left}{left}{left}
return
^!u:: ; ctrl alt u calls this
Send Thanks for following, Alex
return
^!f:: ; ctrl alt f calls this
Run "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "uk.yahoo.com" "www.blogger.com" "twitter.com"
return
^!p:: ; ctrl alt p calls this
Send <p>
Send `n`n
Send </p>
SendInput {up}
return
^!n:: ; ctrl alt n calls this
Send <p class="note">`n`n</p><br />
SendInput {up}
return
^!a:: ; ctrl alt a calls this
Send <a href="">`n<acronym title="">`n</acronym></a>
SendInput {up}{up}{left}{left}
return
^!d:: ; ctrl alt d calls this
Send <div class="note">`n
Send <p></p>`n`n</p>`n</div>
SendInput {up}{up}
return
^!r:: ; ctrl alt r calls this
Send <br />
return
^!b:: ; ctrl alt b calls this
Send <b></b>
SendInput {left}{left}{left}{left}
return
^!i:: ; ctrl alt i calls this
Send <i></i>
SendInput {left}{left}{left}{left}
return
N.B. The ` is not the same as the apostrophe character so if in doubt copy then paste it here:
`
; Usually when you hit a dead end it's best to
Send zzzzzzzz
Wait 10000000000
Send TryAgain
note in order to get this working you need to install autohotkeys and put this keys.afk file somewhere on your desktop - then activate it with a doubleclick - it will appear in your taskbar and after that you're good to go.
