I have taken the time to finally install and get Live Writer installed and running - if nothing else to test it out.  I'm kinda liking it.  I can already tell that there are some things that I'd like for it to do a little differently, but I'm happy to experiment with it.

It sure beats having to deal with the FreeTextBox that is included with the .Text blog engine.  Nothing against FreeTextBox, per se, but there were always a few things that really bugged me with it (mostly how I couldn't ever go back and edit XML/HTML/Markup in my blog posts without resorting to my own 'fly by night' app that I threw together just so allow me to edit them).

In fact, I had installed Live Writer several weeks ago but was not successful in getting it set up to work with .Text, nor did I really take the time to do so.  However, I was reading Miguel Jimenez's blog today and found a nice little nugget.

When setting up a .Text blog in Live Writer you specify the proper blog url and your user name and password.  On the second screen you specify to use a Custom Blog (MetaBlogAPI) with a url of http://yoursite/blogname/services/metablogapi.aspx.  At first this didn't work for me.  If you get an error indicating that the user name is invalid, make sure that Web Services are enabled for your blog.  I had disabled them long ago, but had to reenable them today for this to work.

I'm digging this.  It's nice and convenient and I don't have to have a live connection to make my posts.  There are a million tools out there like this one, but this suits my needs just fine.