You, dear reader, have pristine attention to detail, and never fail to close quotes in a blog post hyperlink.
I unfortunately slip every once in a while and leave off the close-quote, creating an unreadable post that can't be removed from within the weblog editing interface. Fortunately, it's possible to remove an offending post using the XML-RPC interface to the major blog tools.
Since I'm enough of a klutz to make this mistake on more than one weblog, I wrote a small python utility that can remove dead posts for an arbitrary weblog, using the form: kill("blogconfig_filename",badpostnumber). It builds on Mark Pilgrim's python wrapper to the blogger API.
Let me know if you're interested, and I'll post it for download. I will also be reassured to know of the existence of fellow keyboard klutzes.
Posted by alevin at December 15, 2002 01:15 AM