I have been using Live Writer (http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/) for few days now.

I think I quite like the tool for few things:

• I maintain few blogs, it’s nice to have one interface that I can use to post to different blogs.
• It’s also nice to have a centralized place to put my draft posts. I tend to have quite a few draft posts as I usually have a lot of ideas that I want to explore in depth later on and finally turn them into blog posts.
• This happens to me few times and I know it happens to at least someone else who has since stopped blogging (you know who you are :)). Once in a while you’ll find yourselves in the situation of writing a long entry and when you hit enter, nothing happens and your post is gone, you hit the back button and you just find an empty form. ARGH! Of course, you can always write your post first on Notepad and then cut and paste it, but that’s just a bit tedious. Live Writer will solve this problem since (I assume) Live Writer saves your writing in your hard disk and when you are ready to publish, you just hit send button, it will send it to your blog.

It’s nice that M$ puts up a decent and free application. Anyway this is my first post on focuser.net via Live Writer.