Blogdesk: Blog-Tool for Windows
Recently, I stumbled upon BlogDesk as a tool for posting to my blogs. After I had fiddled around w/ quite a bunch of different tools, I am now happy that I found a blogging Tool for Windows that has most of the features I need:
- Image resizing and thumbnail creation (Great!)
- “Raw”-Mode which is great for posts using Markdown
- Multiple Blogs
Most other tools I tried (including Word, Windows Live Writer and others) did not accomodate for one or more of these requirements.
The screenshot below show how this post looks in BlogDesk’s “Source” View (Click for bigger image).
Of course, Ecto for OS X remains still mostly unmatched (at least for my needs) but BlogDesk is really close — and free. And the developer Johannes is helpful, even if dumb users as I don’t read the instructions in detail. 
Comments working again …
My apologies for all the readers that were eager to comment on a post but couldn’t because comments were broken. I fixed it and everything should be back to normal now — probably also Spam coming in a bit more frequently … bummer, I almost got used to “Zero Comment-Spam” 
(For the technically inclined: The WP-Filters plugin seems to be the culprit … it wouldn’t work with the plethora of filters I currently use here at “taking the red pill”.)
BlogTeX
I’m reading James Taubers blog for a while now, and it is, by itself, a very interesting resource. Today, he had a short entry about TeX for Leonardo:
Looking at Wikitex (via Simon Willison) has convinced me more than ever that I want support for TeX in Leonardo.
Well, I guess that might even be interesting for some friend of mine, who is still very busy with doing LaTeX and Stuff. And of course, the idea itself is interesting, too: Just throw a look at WikiTeX too see what’s possible.
I must check if there’s a TeX plugin for Wordpress available as well. Might be neat. And cool, at last.
