While the pre-eminent desktop blog clients for Mac OS X are ecto and marsedit, I discovered journler, which is a free (as in beer) although the developer accepts donations for personal use and requires licensing for other uses

(I guess similar to how Movable Type licenses their software currently. I am still awaiting their GPLed release. The idea that it’s written in Perl (and not PHP!) intrigues the hacker in me, but since MT is one of the oldest active blogging engines out there, I shrink back in horror at the idea of sifting through years of legacy code. Then again, maybe the next release will be totally refactored. Right.)

I’m not too happy with how journler handles links, and it doesn’t look like there’s a way to change things so that I can just edit raw HTML. Hmm.

I guess I’m just going to have to write my own blog client software, really. I may very well have to learn Objective C and Cocoa(!!!)