Backing up Blogger Blog

I recently read about disappearing blogs in blogger so I searched for tools to backup my blogs. I found the following tools to backup to your local hard disk:

1. Blogger Backup
2. Web Grabber (for OS X)
3. HTTrack Website Copier

There is also a free service I found:

Blog BackupR

Sitemaps for Blogspot sites

There are two systems in blogspot, the old one and the new one (was previously beta).  To verify, you need to visit to see if you get a XML or a web page.

In the list below, the first three url is the default for sitemap but in the new system, it is redirected to feedburner and will not be recognized by rss readers.  If that is the case then use the last url for the feed.  If it still provide the xml format then you can still continue to use those urls.

Old sitemaps:
http://programmersjournal.blogspot.com/rss.xml
http://programmersjournal.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://programmersjournal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

New sitemap.

http://programmersjournal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full

Creating properly aligned content in Blogger

The easiest way to create a properly aligned information in Blogger is:

1. Open excel and place the data in table as shown below.
2. Copy and then paste into the compose screen (this only works if you are using FireFox) and there you have it, your data is aligned correct (as shown below).
   

This is how the excel looks like:


Using Firefox:

Date	Mileage	time
1-Jan-08	10	1 hr
2-Jan-08	5	0.5 hr