Xperimentality

I am a little behind on this.  Been out of town and have been trying to get caught up.  The Windows Live Writer team just release a build 141 with some good updates.  Then shortly thereafter released a build 146 to take into account some of the changes made to Blogger Beta.  I copied the list of changes below:

• Tagging support
• Support for Blogger Beta
• Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
• Improved startup performance
• Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
• Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
• Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
• Custom date support for Community Server
• Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
• Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
• Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
• More robust image posting to Live Spaces
• Improved style detection for blogs 
• Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
• Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
• Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts

The startup performance is listed as having been improved.  This is really evident right away.  If you are currently using Live Writer, start it up.  Then download the latest build and start it up again.  Much better startup time!  If you are not currently using Live Writer, give it a try.