Tech Toys

Trying out a new piece of software: ecto. It's a blogging tool that allows me to compose offline and then publish. I found it while checking out Blogger's third-party apps page (in search of an answer to why Audioblogger is down, and a possible replacement). Ping-pong... I've been wondering how best to back-up the extensive amounts of info recorded in my sewing blog and insights published in my "deep thoughts" blog. Voila--ecto automatically retrieved all my past posts and they are now on the relative safety of my local drive. A nice bonus is that it works with both Blogger and LiveJournal, so I can do everything in one place (and even cross-post with the click of a drop-down menu!). The documentation leaves a little to be desired, but so far, so good! It will even insert my currently playing music from iTunes (Good Times from the album "11 Attempts - Roughs" by Ron Irizarry).

I've also added a "subscribe me" form (courtesy of Feedblitz), for folks who want to get an email notification when I add a new post, to my main blog, Sojourn. If I decide to keep it, I'll add it to all my Blogger blogs (LiveJournal already does something like this via "Friends").

The bottom line, really, is that I enjoy playing with new toys... ;)