I started blogging on the desktop with Kung-Log, the precursor to ecto. It was hackish, but worked. Then ecto came out and I was joyous. Then it lay still and broken for years with promises of ecto 3. Then I saw ecto 3.

I bought MarsEdit today. It’s much more Mac-like than ecto 3 is and is, overall, a much cleaner and more usable program than ecto.

If you’re using a Mac and use a website package that accepts an XML-RPC client, hit up Red Sweater Software and take a test drive. Things are much easier with this beast.