[d] enclosed in brackets chaotic perfectionist for hire

For starters, it was really nice last week, but I didn't get a chance to go outside much... Now I'll probably have plenty of time this week, but it's pouring right now. whee.

So I've been trying to figure out how I want to write, and when's the best time for to write. So far it's sporadic in frequency... I just need to get the ideas down and write them out later. The Twitter-esque posting style (140 characters or less) has been useful, and especially with services like hellotxt and ping.fm to get the word out to multiple places. Of the two, I like them both about the same - it depends on what I want to do. If I want to post from mobile-land, the easiest seems to be using my ping.fm super-secret email address (I don't have a data plan).

I think another thing that would help me write here is a place to quickly write up the post, including formatting. I've been trying out Nvu, but not sure if I like the way it puts the code. Maybe a couple more posts and I'll get the hang of it. I'm actually writing this post in it, and it's nice that I can keep working on an offline copy, in case I don't have a connection (although that happens fewer and farther between).

Any suggestions, on either writing or applications to try out?

I could write out the content by hand (as I pretty much have been for the past 12 years), but I'd rather have something else do some of the legwork (offline, I have Drupal and its lovely modules to do the rest).

As I've mentioned before, I'm in quite a few communities and signed up on a lot of sites. This includes Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, and Tumblr - all different, but in some ways much the same. Right now I'm pretty much tracking what happens through Twitter only, through IM (Pidgin). I tried using IMified, but the bot for gtalk died for me or something.

Is anyone using something to post to multiple sites? I know of a couple, but they're not for Windows (I'm on XP Pro, SP2). Would that be like a reverse aggregator?