Clueless Wonder

I’m posting this using the MarsEdit blogging tool. I actually have a license to the previous version of this software from a bundle but ended up using Ecto instead. A new version of MarsEdit has been released from a new developer that has taken the project over. It seems to add a few features such as Flickr integration that make it seem viable for me so I decided to give it another try.

Compared to Ecto 2, MarsEdit appears to be a much cleaner layout. Ecto 3 is closer but you have to appreciate the simple beauty of MarsEdit. For beginning bloggers there might be a little bit more of a learning curve with MarsEdit though as it does not appear to provide a rich text editing option. So you are creating your posts in HTML. It has a simple drop down with basic things like links and paragraphs to help you along though.

It’s too early to say for sure if I’m going to go ahead and pay the $9.99 upgrade price and start using MarsEdit exclusively but I’m going to give it a shot for the 30 day trial and see how it goes.

This and my other blogs have all been updated to the latest version of WordPress, which now stands at 2.3. The biggest change is that tagging is now built into the core instead of requiring a plugin. It flawlessly imported all of my tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) which I used previously. There are some issues with the new system such as no built-in method of managing your tags once used. However, there are already some additional plugins that handle this.

Now comes the fun part of making everything work smoothly again. This is from my backups, my blogging tool of choice (ecto), file uploads, the themes, etc…. It’s not as bad as I had originally thought but it’s still not something that I enjoy.

Just testing out a new plugin for my Mint install to track people who read this through a feed reader. If you have a WordPress install, I highly recommend Mint if you want a more powerful and customizable tracking mechanism.**Note** It works, but you’ll have to resubscribe to the RSS feed it appears. Bah!

So I hope that everybody that is available is planning on playing in the blogger big game tonight. Miami Don has one again taken the time to set up a slightly larger buyin event for all of the degenerate writers out there. This one is special as it’s included on the schedule for the Battle of the Blogger Tournaments series. You can see the current leaderboard over at Al’s page. I’ve only played in one of the events so far and of course donked out early. In blogger events I tend to either final table or be one of the first ones out. I think that I have a hard time adjusting my game to actually take into account when people might be doing some level 3 or 4 thinking. For those not in the know, here are the details for tonight’s event:

Tournament: Blogger Big Game
Where: Full Tilt Poker
When: Sunday, April 15th. 9:30pm ET
Buyin: $69+6 or token
Password: donkey