Spelling

Are you as good at spelling as I am? After relying on spellcheckers you get a little lazy. Not a good idea for setting an example for my son. But so far his writing is still simple enough for me to spell unassisted.

But for the Blog and comments, I proof them in MS Word (I'd switch to OpenOffice, but in business today you have to know MicroSoft products) then copy and paste it into the Edit HTML (otherwise you get tons of inefficient HTML from MS Word).

Well now there is another way. Firefox has always been a great browser, way ahead of Internet Explorer. And now Firefox 2 has spellcheck. So when you use the Firefox browser to open a Blog post editor it will spellcheck words as you type them. It will underline misspelled words and you can right click and correct them.

The Blogger Post Editor has a spellchecker, but it generates extra HTML behind the scenes. You need to click the "Done SpellChecking" underneath the row of icons (on the new Blogger) to get rid of this extra HTML.

For Blogger comments you don't have a spellchecker, so this is where it can be very handy, especially since you'll notice that typo 5 seconds after you click Publish. Then your only choice is to delete and re-comment, kind of messy.

So for all you lazy spellers out there (starting with me) you can look sharper with Firefox 2.

PS: OK, if you are really lazy, MS Word will detect your grammar errors too.