One of the major hangups that caused the extended lack of content you've seen (since the inception of the site, to be honest, but I'm specifically talking about the past couple months) was the inability to find a blog editor that I liked. Like most people, I started out by simply using the web-interface of Movable Type. After a couple months of this, I shied away. I learned that I'd rather have something on my desktop, rather than having a web-browser constantly open to MT. At the time, MT was prone to wiping out my entire post without notice, on a simple reload of the page, or Safari crash. Whatever.

So I looked to developers of software I liked. After trying out a couple others, I fell into Ecto. Developed by Adriaan Tijsseling, I was a big fan of his RSS reader, "Endo." Also, the names kick ass.

At first, it was great. The feature set was awesome, and once I got it configured, it rocked. At first. With each update came a couple fixes for outstanding issues, but it seemed each one had a host of quirks and problems that went with it. Most recently, I couldn't reliably attach categories or images, which meant that for every post I was logging back into the web interface to set a tag, or to fix the image. That got old, and quick.

As a result, I abandoned the blog for a good long while. I had other things to tend to, so it fell to the back of my mind. If you've tried to start a regular blog, you can relate, I'm sure. Months passed.

Last week, I wiped my comp. Reinstalled apps, and when I went to install an RSS reader, I defaulted to my old standby: endo. Except it was different. It was suckier. Didn't have the features I was used to. So I checked the website. I guess it's free, now. Which is good. But, I am a little blown that while I bought a full license, the new, free, ecto feels crippled compared to what I've used in the past. So I threw it in the trash, and decided to replace it with NetNewsWire.

NetNewsWire expects MarsEdit as a desktop blogging client, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Here we are, all caught up. And over the next couple days, you'll see more activity over here, and a full writeup of the differences between Ecto and MarsEdit will be forthcoming.