Markdown and Smartypants

Since I’ve installed Moveable Type for my blog, I’ve been searching for a smart way to do “formatting without doing HTML”, and now I’ve found it: Markdown. It lets me create entries in a wiki-like fashion. Highly recommendable.

On the same site I also found SmartyPants which converts dashes, quotes, ticks, etc. to the correct typographic entities. Just the tool for a nitpicker like me :)