I can finally say I have a useful and productive blogging tool for Linux - more specifically, Ubuntu. Thanks to the “Postie” plugin for Wordpress, I get to use Thunderbird - my email client - as my blogging client too. It’s great to have something that is quick and ubiquitous for blogging. I get all the formatting I need plus spell checking, URL links, and a pretty easy solution for inserting pictures. It does not do everything that Windows Live Writer did but it’s fast and easy.

The only feature I miss is the simplicity with which WLW took a big picture, made a thumbnail, added a nice drop shadow, and then placed the thumb in my blog and linked to the bigger picture.

Postie does almost all of that with the exception of the drop shadow. It is also having a bit of an issue with the placement of pictures when it automates the thumbnail task for me. If I am placing small pics, Postie handles that fine because there is not “generation” of the needed HTML.

So, for now, I will blog using Thunderbird and you will likely see fewer big pics (and no drop shadows). I think it is a small price to pay since now I can blog more quickly and more often.

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