Does it post them if they're saved to the server as a draft?

If you end up seeing this draft, but no earlier than the 8th, then LiveWriter and das Blog can schedule drafts by "Post draft to Weblog" with a scheduled date. (This was scheduled for 7/8 4AM.)

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Scheduling Posts with dasBlog / LiveWriter

I'm still working this out, but...

I believe the key is to "Post draft to Weblog" (not "Post to Weblog" or "Save local draft").

Further, there is definitely some hinkiness relating to UCT and TZ offset.

If, at 7/3 3:20 PM HST (== 7/4 1:20 UCT), I …

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Happy Birthday, America!

\<a href="http://www.backbaypress.com/skylines.html"" target="_blank" atomicselection="true" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Since LiveWriter Beta seems to not delay publishing until the "Set publish date" time (it just time-stamps them later, which is just annoying), I will be going dark for a few days of travel. In …

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XML Report Generators, Part 2

Based on comments to my earlier post, I put further work into Crystal Reports XI and SQL Server Reporting Services. Both seem capable-enough in terms of handling the data volumes and seem to have similar ease-of-use as far as the ultimate end-user goes (the inexperienced programmers who will be charged …

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"Handkerchief-Clad Mechanics"?

In this MSNBC article about the Boeing 787, the writer remembers "the noisy factory floors with handkerchief-clad mechanics clanging away on shiny metal." Was that one of those weird hippie things?

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Frisbee God Scott Zimmerman Pens MSDN Article

I was just reading "8 Tips and Tricks for Better BizTalk Programming" in the May 2007 MSDN when the word "Frisbee" in the author's bio caught my eye.

I was pretty good with a disc (3 world records, all of which have been long eclipsed), but Scott Zimmerman was the …

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Volcanic Caesura

After Pele rolled over, she's gone into a deeper slumber and the Big Island is experiencing the lowest level of volcanic activity since 1983. Such pauses have happened twice before during the current 24-year-long eruption and previously lasted just a few weeks.

The effect on the Kona (leeward) side of …

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"Set Publish Date" works or not in LiveWriter Beta?

I am setting the publish date of this post to tomorrow (6/30) at 6:00:00 AM, although I am publishing it on the 29th at 7PM.

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WiiWare: Small (and Non-Professional?) Game Development for Nintendo

Wii has announced that they will be opening the door to small developers on the Wii. The first take on this is that "WiiWare" is primarily about downloadable games a la XBox Arcade, but we all knew that was coming. More surprising is that Nintendo says that they will not …

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Forza 2 Killed My Launch XBox 360

Apparently, that my XBox 360 lasted from the day it went on sale until today is unusual. I was negotiating a turn in Forza 2 and the system froze. Rebooted, it froze during race startup. Rebooted, and now it's "the Red Ring of Death."

According to \<a href="http://www …

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