Ahhh - I've been very tempted to tell you about this, but had to hold my horses until now: We've got a great little tool to help craft blogs, called (for the moment) "Writer". Download the beta here, now.

This, BTW is what many of us has been using to blog with. Top features for me? I can compile my postings offline, save them, spell check and publish them with one click. And it does a great job of pictures and more...