writing letters to myself

It’s funny just how important posting-via-email has become to me for updating Teradome. Now that mailhandler, the Drupal module that provides this function, has been updated for 5.0 — or at least, has been patched for compatibility in HEAD and is awaiting a formal release — I can resume posting to Ol’ Bloggy here from the comfort of my Sidekick.

Since there’s no way to edit a post by email after it’s sent, I only get one shot — just like with any email (although yes, I can edit it once it’s on the site, still). It feels better than a “blog editor” since I take more care editing it the first time around, and drafting something just feels more intimate since I’m carrying it on me all the time instead of having to visit an admin page in a browser to see it.

I’ve also noticed that using Twitter has helped my writing. I refuse to over-abbreviate in order to fit a message in a “tweet” as some are calling it — as I had said, if yr usin 2 much abbv in yr post, yr usin the wrng mdium. Brevity and succinctness are key. For me, Twitter is about fragments of time, not sentences.

In any case, now that my phone has been re-enabled as a multi-faceted tweeting, blogging, photo-posting machine, my only worry from here is how good the text entry is on the iPhone. But, unlike the Sidekick, at least it’ll have a spellchecker.

I guess Danger’s target market would get slowed down by spelling checkers more than they’d be helped. Rly.