Editing The Pen Addict 19/transcript (section)

== Pen Weighting ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not worth the cost difference in my mind. And plus it, it's, it's weighted strangely when you post the cap, but yeah, that's, that's for another post in another podcast, but it's super nice. It's not worth $50 where the, the regular classic roller and the click roller, I think are both 15 or at least in that ballpark.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And you're happy to pay that sort of price for them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I, I think that's the maximum. Um, at first it was a little shocking. Um, to, to feel how light and, you know, not substantial feeling this pin was when I first purchased it. But when I started using it, that, that went away. I was like, Oh, this is, this is very nice. I mean, I, you know, I, I, I talk about it in the review and in, in this top five list it, the, it's, it's not a great value purchase, but it's a, it's a really good pen. And it's one I use a lot.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My third pin on the list is one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're going to get to it in a minute. We're going to get to it in a minute. I'm going to cut you right off there so we can talk about our first sponsor this week. Um, and this, this episode of course is brought to you by the fantastic people at Squarespace. Squarespace provides you with everything you need to create an amazing, powerful website. And throughout this week on the shows, I've been talking about Squarespace's importer tool. So if you have a blog elsewhere, um, on movable type, type pad, WordPress and blogger, you can import your blog to Squarespace. Um, all of those, um, services have an export tool. So you can export something out. Um, and then you're able to import your blog into WordPress. Oh, sorry. Into Squarespace, not into WordPress. You don't want to do that. That's a horrible idea. Um, what, what makes Squarespace different to all the others is you don't just get your, uh, posts and your comments like many other systems. You put a bunch of information in so you get all of your media imported over from your blog. Your URLs get redirected and everything so they remain working and it makes sure that it matches the URL scheme. And all of your data moves along too. Um, the system is really superb and it's something that I wanted to talk about in a different fashion here. Because our good friend Brad has a, had an interesting time with the, um, with the importer and has actually in turn made the importer tool better. So it seemed, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I have a first, first hand knowledge of how the, uh, the importer tool works. And, um, you know, I, when I converted my blogger for type pad and we've talked, we've touched on in the, uh, in the podcast before that I had an error, uh, in an issue with the redirects when my import was working. So I contacted, um, Squarespace, their support. Um, they were actually, you know, able to dig into it. You know, their, their depth of knowledge and interest in fixing my problem was deep. It wasn't like a superficial type thing, you know, where they're like, um, is your computer plugged in? You know, is it powered on? You know, it was like, okay, you know, I've got this access. I see what's happening. Give me, you know, let me see your access. I'm going to test it out for myself and see what the problem is. And they went and did it. I figured it was going to be some error on my part. And, you know, they'd say, you know, they'd say, oh, you're doing this wrong. And we'd fix it and move on. But it turns out we hit a bug in the Squarespace code. And so they had to, uh, issue a bug fix, um, issue a bug fix for, um, you know, this, um, getting the redirects from a TypePad blog. So, um, you know, I went back and forth with them. It took, it took a couple of weeks to fix, but, you know, they had to put in, I'm sure, you know, working in the IT field, they can't just, you know, apply a change for one guy and fix it and go. They have to go through their testing procedures and things like that. And, um, you know, it took them a couple of weeks and they said, hey, they sent me an email, said, hey, we got it fixed. Try it now. And boom, as we say, everything was fixed.

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'''Myke Hurley:''' So, number three.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Number three is an all-timer. You know, actually number three and four. But number three is the Pilot Hi-Tech C 0.3mm black with the grip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Old faithful is this one, isn't it?