Too Many Posts? Blame Windows Live Writer

As anyone who’s reading this (if anyone is) has noticed, there has been a rapid surge in the number of posts on the site in the past 12 or so hours.  The reason for the increased posting is because I was able to download Windows Live Writer last night.  Now I have to provide some disclosure here and inform you that I start working for Microsoft full-time in just over a week, but that aside Writer is a great piece of software.

I wrote about Live Writer almost two years ago on Josh Campoverde.com.  What I said then was that Writer is a great piece of blogging software, and that I really liked it.  Unfortunately I had previously been unable to use Writer because I didn’t own a computer that ran Windows.  Well, circumstances have changed, and I now have a unibody MacBook running Boot Camp.  While I still wished I knew of a great blogging application that ran natively on Mac OS X, Writer is my favorite piece of software to blog with, and it shows.

Writer allows you to publish to a few different blogging services (including WordPress, which I use here) and provides you with a live preview of what the post will look line online, using your currently active WordPress theme!  That’s pretty cool, because a lot of theme have little quirks that affect the appearance of your post (like how the Vigilance theme I’m using right now uses little stars for bullets, wtf?).  Writer also makes it really easy to insert images and links (including links to your previous posts).  Overall, Writer just makes it easier to handle the formatting of your posts, and while WordPress has a great web interface for managing your posts, the Writer client just feels much more responsive.

Writer is simple and intuitive, which makes using it, and writing posts not only much easier, but more enjoyable, which is why you see me publishing so many posts in such a short time right now.