A keeper?

I suspect that Windows Live Writer may just be staying on my hard drive.  If this doesn't get people blogging more, nothing will.  It's rare to come across a product that is at the same time ridiculously simple to use, and yet clever enough to make otherwise tortuous updates automatically.

Or perhaps the clever bit is making it simple.

One of the reasons that I haven't updated these pages is because it needs a login to Blogger to get it working.  However, WLW just ignores all that - asks for the homepage, a username and password (I gave it the Blogger combination, NOT the FTP account for the actual web pages), goes and pulls down what info it can (including the use of the Trebuchet font - not exactly normal) and makes writing this as easy as falling off the proverbial log.

Of course, there's the usual MS bias - one of the tools is a link to Windows Live Local maps - but you can't criticise for added functionality.  It's also possible to insert your own URLs, pictures, or other HTML code, so it's not really a limitation.

Now that's another excuse gone.