As Megan mentioned in one of her previous posts, the blogging software that we’re using appears to have some “quirks”. For the technically curious among you, the blog is running on an ASP.NET platform called BlogEngine.net, chosen primarily because our (free) web hosting supports ASP.NET applications (otherwise I probably would have used something more standard like WordPress, but that requires PHP support). On the client side, we’re using the Windows Live Writer application to edit and publish blog posts, which has some nice features like formatting images to the right size with nice effects, etc. The problem we’re having is that occassionally, for reasons I have not yet deduced, entries will get posted twice when we hit the “Publish” button. What’s weirder still is that when you go to delete the extra post, it deletes both of them! This sounds like a bug in BlogEngine.net to me, but I haven’t yet tracked it down. So, if you see random posts popping up briefly with titles like “Testing, 1, 2, 3…” and “Double-posting bug”, that’s me trying to figure out what’s broken and how to fix it. :) In the world of software development, we refer to this kind of issue as an “intermittent repro” since it can’t be reproduced on demand, and that is a frustratingly tricky category of bugs to track down and fix. Hopefully we’ll get this one flushed out sooner rather than later.