An Easier Way to Blog

As a small interim post before the big one tonight:

If you aren't using Windows Live Writer for your blogging, then you are missing out. I don't want to bash the Blogger interface (which I still use at work), but the ease and versatility of Live Writer far surpasses it. For example, it automagically downloads your style information from your blog so that you can write in a "layout" preview mode that puts all of your text in as it would (style -wise) in the blog.

Just a click of the menu and you can get quick previews of how the post will look in your blog, or edit the HTML.

All in all, it's easy to setup, easy to use, and allows for the sort of confidence in use that an application holds above a webpage. Anyone who has written a whole long post to have it disappear knows what I am talking about.

The only thing I would ask for is built in <code>or <pre> support. Sure, you can drop it in the HTML manually, but you'd think that MS would realize how many people out there are blogging about development.