A new way to do my post, lending some time and effort to a beta from Microsoft this time 'round. More prescicely the Live Writer (beta 2 from early june)
Improvements
Are clearly needed - first and foremost in terms of including a spell checker, either an online version like blogger has, or the one in firefox for forms and such. Or preferably a way to use the installed ones from Office for multi-lingual blogging
Better use of the tags from Blogger; rapid entry like in most MS programs as a supplement to the pop-up list - and/or the option for grouping or sorting the tags
Edit: Consistent formating of h3 :) colorized all wrong
Nice touch
Using the online design right in the Writer, so you get a better feel for how it will actually read out there on the web.
And using auto-format - so the next style after a heading and a line break is "paragraph" by default
Overall? First impression - Nice enough, but might as well stick with Word for offline rants, and do the formating online with Blogger.