Second Half

ecto: What is ecto?: ecto is designed to make blogging much more easier and yet give the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs.

ecto is my new blogging tool (meaning it's new to me...not that I built it). I recently started this blog and was looking for a solid OS X desktop client to support blogging with MovableType. This is the one and it sure makes it easy to prepare posts offline for later posting, or just for getting things together and doing what appears to be EVERYTHING that I could do through the web-based MT interface.

If you're on a Mac and you blog (using just about any blogging system), then ecto is worth checking out.

Thanks to the ectonians for ecto...

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Posted by Bob Monsour at 10:28 PM | Permalink

August 25th marked two relatively significant events. The first was the release of MovableType 3.2, a very nice blogging platform (on which this blog runs). The second, yet far more personal was my 50th birthday.

I am calling this blog "Second Half", somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as it represents the second half of my life. Not that I expect to live to 100 years old, but more for the milestone it is with respect to various aspects of my life.

The things that currently make up my life and consume my cranium, including...

• Family, i.e., wonderful wife and son (and dogs)
• Serving as a trustee at my son's private school
• Serving as a board member in a privately held technology company in the RFID field
• Learning about web site design and related standards-based construction
• Studying the new pheonomenon known as Ruby on Rails
• Playing a lot of tennis, and this week, attending the US Open
• Staying fit so I can keep on playing like I'm 50 until I'm 80
• ...and starting this blog (and keeping it going this time)

I'll be writing about all of these things and more over the coming days, weeks and months and hope to experiment quite a bit with what this could all become.

Posted by Bob Monsour at 10:21 PM | Permalink