Found an advanced extension for Mozilla Firefox which offers a rich set of features for editing and posting to multiple blog sites, assuming they have support for remote interaction (xmlrpc). Its called Perfomancing For Firefox (PFF). It seems to have good drupal support, even showing your categories for posts (of which there are far too many on shadyvale that I need to clean up), which never worked for me when trying client-side blogging tools. I love the fact that you can save your entries locally before publishing them. (How many times have you lost your work when posting on a web form?).
The other features are too numerous to iterate, things like technorati and del.icio.us integration. But if you are curious browse through the PFF handbook.
So this is a test post and if it works, I may consider the client-server approach to blog posting.
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Worked pretty well
Had one problem. It posted without paragraph tags around paragraphs. When I went into PFF's view html mode, I was able to add the <!--break--> to prevent the story from being broken. When I did that the story showed up fine. I don't know if thats because in non-summary mode Drupal adds paragraph marks or what.
I have never really liked the handling of story breaks in drupal. For the most part, I don't want stories broken on my blog page (or in RSS), but only want them broken, when aggregated on the front page.
Another problem I had, was related to the re-publishing after fixing the above. You can view your old posts from the client, and then edit them and publish them back as an edit. It seems to add the title of the blog post in title tags in the html, I had to remove those before reposting.
Anyway, i'll keep investigating... seems worth figuring out.
Didn't save categories on re-post
Looks like it didn't keep the category selections on re-posting either.