Give me two tomatoe plants and I turn right into a farmer, with all the farmer's pride and fretting.

A windy rain started just now -- little less-than-marble-sized hailstones, too -- and I had to bite my fingernails to protect my plants. Constant vigilance, you know, that's how we farmers have to live.

Good thing I finally tied them up this morning, though my method is another entry for the ditz log. I didn't take the trouble to get or make real stakes or trellaces, so I unwound some flimsy clothes hangers and twisted them on to the balcony railing. That means I have anchored the plants to the railing so I can't move them out of the wind.

The stems haven't broken yet.

 7/10/2010; 7:03:13 PM.   .

I'm following Marc Barrot's work on his iJot editor.

Funny, when I made that screencast yesterday I typed in the document something about how I supposed you couldn't expect a post edited in iJot to be written back to the blog's server, but indeed he did intend to make that possible all along.

The ability to edit from any computer would be a big plus. When I used the OPML Editor's blogging tool in 2005-2007 I had to have the editor installed on any computer I might be using and remember to synchronize my files between them. With this development you could even edit on platforms that are not ready for the OPML Editor, like a Linux machine, or an iPad. I think I'll try it on the iPad right now. I'll let you know.

Later: Worked with some headaches of my own making.

 7/10/2010; 5:51:39 PM.   .