About the frog...

When I posted this photo of a sweet frog - or is it a toad? I can never tell the difference - that scampered across my path during a meeting earlier this afternoon, it was accompanied by a couple of paragraphs of random thoughts.

Not that a hundred or so words mean a whole lot in the overall scheme of things, but I was slightly surprised when the post published as a photo only - no words in sight. I dug into every interface I could find - the app, my mail client's send folder, Gmail, the little space beside the porch under the evergreen bush where I sometimes hide randomly picked dandelions - and every reference to this blog entry was wordless. My thoughts were lost to the ages. Odd, that. Some days, technology hates me (I know, ironic given what I do for a living. But still.)

This was my first attempt at posting a photo from my iPad - first photo is actually here - and up until I hit the Publish button on the touchscreen, I was all pleased with myself at how easy it was to shoot, write, edit and upload from Apple's uber-tablet. I'm thinking I've got a bit of app-tweaking to do before we can call this thing functional.

Your turn: What do you use - hardware, software, related tools, whatever - to maintain your blog? I'm interested in seeing what tools are out there, and whether they're doing the job for you.