{"id":12389,"date":"2008-05-15T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/15\/posting-from-the-belly-of-the-beast.html"},"modified":"2008-05-15T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:27:46","slug":"posting_from_the_belly_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/posting_from_the_belly_of.html","title":{"rendered":"Posting from the Belly of the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been poking around (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/ecto_morph.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously discussed<\/a>) with desktop blog clients.&nbsp; My old standby, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randyrants.com\/sharpmt\/\" target=\"_blank\">SharpMT<\/a>, has essentially shut down.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/wbloggar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">W.bloggar<\/a> is more powerful than ever, but I&#8217;ve grown fond of WYSIWYG writing, and it only supports 12 snippets\/tags\/blocks.<\/p>\n<p>So one tool I&#8217;ve often heard highly touted is <a href=\"http:\/\/get.live.com\/writer\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Live Writer<\/a>.&nbsp; Yes, working with the Evil Empire itself &#8212; or with its tools.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that:<\/p>\n<p>a.&nbsp; The interface is pretty.<\/p>\n<p>b.&nbsp; There is a healthy number of plugins to play with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sold yet, but I like what I see so far.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been poking around (as previously discussed) with desktop blog clients.&nbsp; My old standby, SharpMT, has essentially shut down.&nbsp; W.bloggar is more powerful than ever, but I&#8217;ve grown fond of WYSIWYG&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5286,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/mtclient_15.html","url_meta":{"origin":12389,"position":0},"title":"MTClient 1.5","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Apr-04 2:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Like Les, I've been trying out the MTClient front-end to MT. 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