I always muse that it would be great if somehow I had the technology to make it easier to weblog.  This weekend, I wrote some notes to myself about how I plan to make it easier to post references on my blog.  I have many lists of links in Ecco -- but it feels like too much work to convert the list into HTML.  However, I am interested in seeing whether I can automate the conversion of those links to HTML.  It's funny that I would spend hours writing a program to do what might not take that much time.  Yet, that's the way it is with programmers....  (I suppose that once I've assembled the links in Ecco, I feel that I've done the work that I want to do.  Hitting a button to upload them them all in nicely formatted HTML is something that I am willing to do -- but converting them by hand is not something I want to do too often.)

Same with pictures....I'd like to share more of the pictures that I take -- but I don't want to have to create thumbnails and upload them all to Manila by hand.  But I'm at work pulling together some tools to automate that process.