Gift Giving Guy

Due to a hiatus, I was not able post on my second blogoversary, May 19, 2009. But the week is not just over yet. For last year’s blogoversary, I tried out the SomethingStore and was dissatisfied. (See my June 21, 2008 post, Something I Won’t Try Again.) I guess the SomethingStore shows random gifts rarely trump thoughtful gifts.

This year, I’m celebrating my blogoversary by giving myself a niche gift for Mac web geeks: an upgrade to latest version of BBEdit software. BBEdit deftly modifies and manipulates raw text and code on Macs. This HTML/text-editing Swiss army knife comes from Bare Bones Software (that’s the BB part). But it’s not a word processor; there are no text formattings or page layout features. I used BBEdit extensively when building the College Gift Finder on this site last year. Plus, how could I go wrong with software that markets itself under the slogan, “It doesn’t suck”?