Playing with Windows Live Writer

I use ecto for blogging at work from my Mac, but have never really found a tool that works well with WordPress (granted the version of ecto I use is a bit out of date; the latest may play better with WP). So since I’ve been playing with a variety of tools on my netbook, I thought I’d try out Windows Live Writer (under the Windows 7 beta, which actually isn’t that bad on a netbook). It’s a bit early to tell, but the composing interface seems ok so far.  It’s an open question how this post will look once posted to the site.  And I haven’t yet found a way to view my previous posts in the tool.

Of course, since my netbook is dual boot I need a good Ubuntu blogging tool as well.  Any suggestions?