I use Markdown and find it quite useful, even with its problems (which the article does a good job of describing -- the main one being "The nice thing about sta

I use Markdown and find it quite useful, even with its problems (which the article does a good job of describing -- the main one being "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from".) Apropos of GitHub pages (which I use to host my blog), are you aware that it is possible to generate HTML locally from Markdown, and then publish the generated HTML? FWIW, Octopress (http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/ http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/) does this (I didn't even realize at first that was what was happening), and that happily insulates you from any changes in GitHub's Markdown support -- as long as your local toolchain remains consistent, content should be rendered the same.