For about a year, now, I’ve been using NetNewsWire not only as my RSS aggregator, but as my blog editor as well. It’s a fine application (with a built-in outliner, too — act before midnight tonight, and it mows the lawn on weekends), and I’m pleased to be a booster of Brent’s.
The only catch is that I’ver gotten used to editing in NNW, and the other day I downloaded the beta of NNW 2. It sounded snazzy, and I speed-read all through Brent’s warnings about “it’s a beta, be sure you really want to,” and I installed the new version. The buzz is well-grounded. NNW 2 is even more powerful, and just as simple, as NNW 1. There’s only one catch: Brent evidently dropped the weblog editor function from NNW. So for the last few days I’ve been desultorily blogging through the old-fashioned Moveable Type interface. My heart wasn’t in it; I can still type angle brackets, but the whole process seemed more laborious.
That’s not the end of the story, though. As I was looking back at the Ranchero site to see when I missed the news that my dealmaker function would be dropped from the new version, I caught up with Brent’s announcement that he was spinning the weblog editor off into its own application, and that it would be free for registered users of NNW 1. Whew! Now, I just have to install and get acquainted with it.
On an unrelated note, Si’s back, and fine. We went to the Blessing of the Seabury Animals service (which made me think about blessing Japanese cartoons, in which case we could have a blessing of the animes) with Bea, shared some pizza, watched But I’m A Cheerleader, which we found sweet and amusing — not a comic masterpiece, but much better than many high-budget, low-brain-cell comedies.
Posted by AKMA at October 7, 2004 10:47 PM | TrackBackHave you ever used BBEdit?
I'm still using Vim, with all the stuff folded in a blogger would need.
Posted by: stoddart at October 8, 2004 09:17 AM