I’m taking the plunge and making Typo my primary blogging engine.

It’s going to take a while to get used to the markup filter method of blogging (vs. the WYSIWYG method I was using before).

Typo gives you three choices for markup:

• Textile
• Markdown
• Markdown w/Smartypants

You also get a live preview of what you are typing (post-markup filter) while you typo. It’s a little unnerving, but helpful when you aren’t familiar with the markup language. It reminds me a bit of hearing an echo of my voice while speaking.

I think I’ll be blogging a lot more with Typo that I was before. It’s more convenient for me to hit a web interface to start a blog post than it was firing up an application that only existed on my home computer.

It’ll take me a little while to redirect all my various pages to this new blog, so bear with me!