Incidentally, there's another huge vote for Markdown from this corner---for me it kind of takes posterous from the toy column to the essential column. Which is

Incidentally, there's another huge vote for Markdown from this corner---for me it kind of takes posterous from the toy column to the essential column. Which is not meant as a slight to posterous; I think it's the most elegant blogging system out there, bar none. But a lack of some kind of structured text means that I'd be having to hand-code html in a mail window. And I promised myself I'm never going back there... NEVER.