I grabbed Ecto the other night, and am digging on it, at least as a first impression. Handles much of the mucking about with both the Moveable Type here, and the WordPress at the running blog without having to wait for the web client. Plus, it’s cross-platform and relatively cheap – for $35, I can buy both Windows and Mac. If there were an option to install it to a thumb drive, I might be completely there. There’s a couple of pretty cool features, like a backdoor to Amazon – three clicks to ask for apipe dream, let you know what I’m running on iTunes
Bessie’s Blues from the album “Akoustic Band” by Chick Corea Akoustic Band
Plus, it makes it stupid easy to add technorati tags.
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Brian ‘G’ has been proposing for months that we should start an advertising firm that specializes in monkeys since anything with a monkey in it is inherently entertaining. He may have been onto something. EW had this blip this week discussing a similar theme:

