Plain and simple, MarsEdit is a program I will never use again. The following is my review of MarsEdit (are you listening Google?):

For those that don't know, it's a client side blog authoring program for OSX that let's you get a rich text editor for your blog posts. Its got a nice UI that deceptively fools you into thinking you are working on a nice client side word processor. At the end of your writing, you get two choices: "Save as Draft," or "Send to Weblog."

The issue is that if you "Send to Weblog" and send to a Typo weblog, you will lose all of your work in an error message that says "Can't get Post... couldn't get Article Id=." The text does not post and at the same time the window with your hard work just goes away.

Now this is clearly an issue between MarsEdit and Typo (which is clearly just not all that mature in its own right) but the fact that MarsEdit doesn't save a local copy of the post before posting to any blog engine is just stupid and sloppy. Did I mention that this is not a free program but rather one in an extinct class of software known as "for-pay clients?"

I can't believe it. I haven't lost data like this since I was an undegrad and my roommate pulled the plug on my 512KB Mac while I was finishing a term paper. It's really an embarrassment and a huge pain to someone like me that doesn't make enough time to blog in the first place.

The two-person company behind MarsEdit, Ranchero software, makes the only really good RSS reader for the Mac, NetNewsWire. It's generally a great piece of software. But losing data while authoring is just... not right.

Note: I will retract all of this if anyone can explain how I can recover the last hour of my life.