And, Back to MarsEdit

Well, I'm still playing around, but I realized something a little earlier this evening (yes, including I'm crazy): I have a great blogging environment right here with MarsEdit. I do enough hand HTML coding that MarsEdit is helpful, not a hinderance, and I spend as much time out of fullscreen mode as I do in, so why not use MarsEdit exclusively?

Well, that's what I'm going to do, at least for a little while. There were two reasons I used WriteRoom and MarsEdit together:

1. I like WriteRoom's fullscreen mode;


2. I like to save my posts locally as RTF files.

Well, as I mentioned above, I'm 50/50 in utilizing WriteRoom's fullscreen mode, and in fact am finding myself using it less and less. My setup is usually this, a browser (currently Firefox), my email app (Thunderbird), iTunes, iChat, WriteRoom and MarsEdit. What I'll do is come across an article, or twenty, on the InterTubing, be inspired to rant on and on about how stupid people are, write this all out in WriteRoom, being careful to add in my HTML code where needed, then copy/paste into MarsEdit. Well, here's the problem: I can't stay in fullscreen mode when I'm bouncing back and forth between Firefox and WriteRoom grabbing URLs and inserting them into my fine, fine prose. The other issue is why the hell am I handwriting HTML code when MarsEdit has a nice "Markup" drop down menu that does the dirty work for me. Jesus, I've got to be a fucking idiot to always be typing out this shit '< a href=' blah the fucking blahdy blah.

Number two on my list, keeping all my posts nicely pack ratted away on my local disk as nice cross-platform RTF files is nice in theory, but really, I use friggin' Blogger. They're all there. Also, I can use the nifty "File → Edit with WriteRoom" to throw the post into WriteRoom and then save it from there.

While I've used the Preview functionality of MarsEdit quite often in the past, I'm coming to realize that it's much more useful than as a mere proofreading-as-it-would-really-look tool. I can check out my HTML code and links while I type. I don't know why I never thought of all this before, beyond the fact that this blog, for as much fun as it is, has never been #1 on my priority list. Maybe now that I have something resembling down time my befuddled, abused brain finally got around to thinking about my blog setup and why I was always a little annoyed.

Anyway, there you have it, like you really give a rat's ass. I know. Still, maybe my bumping around in the dark will be helpful to someone else. Or, I'm just wasting bandwidth.