I'm off in Kansas right now visiting with the Smith clan, Paula's Mother's side of the family.  I don't have access to the Internet on my laptop--DUN isn't working right--so I am blogging old school on Paula's Uncle's computer.  This has given me my first taste of Windows Vista.

1. It appears many of the new features in Vista have been pretty much embedded in OSX for quite some time.
2. Many of the old, annoying, warning messages still pop up--all be it in a more attractive way.
3. I do think that the interface is much more intutitive than XP.

I wish that I had more time to mess around with the software.  I tend to think it is a huge step forward for Windows users.

Apparently at some point in the last 24 hours, Blogger reviewed my site and made the decision that it wasn't a spam risk and unblocked my ability to post via an offline client.  The last posts that I pushed through using Qumana published seamlessly.  They had indicated that they would email me with a decision--no email, but who cares.  I don't suppose I need MORE mail in any of my email boxes.
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This isn't a flaw in Qumana.  It isn't a flaw with Blogger either.  When I post to my Drupal site, the process is seamless.  I type in the Qumana screen, edit, spell check, link, embed.  The process is slick and quick.  In many ways it is a better experience than typing into the blog itself.  This morning, when I connected via DUN, and posted my previous entry it was lightning fast even on the Treo 650.  In other words, I think that Qumana will ultimately make me more efficient.  I may well load it onto my iMac at home as well as the portable I carry for work.

It is pretty common for me to use DUN (dial up networking) on my Treo 650 to connect to the Internet via bluetooth.  It is a handy tool to use when I'm on the road and there is no available Internet connectivity.

DUN on a Treo 650 is SLOW.  It can take forever for pages to render, some pages don't load quite right, and the connection is fraught with disconnects.  This can make for an extraordinarily frustrating experience.

Qumana can't do anything for me by way of Web based email, but it should allow me to post with relative ease to, currently, the two blogs that I run.  Shortly, I will start blogging for the Second Life Non Profits that are setting up a non-profit commons and providing office space for non-profits.  Given that I heavily cross post between my sites, this should allow me to engage all the sites I work on in a pretty seamless way.

Qumana is a online/offline blogging tool that allows you to post to multiple blogs in one fell swoop.  Given that I've been spending quite a bit of time since switching to Drupal crossposting to my old blogging site, http://imagespace.blogspot.com, I thought I would try this tool out.  Add to that, that it is common for me to write when I have no Internet access.  Rather than compose in Word and then cut and paste, this may end up being a better way for me to blog.

It includes a text editor, that looks an awful lot like TinyMCE.  It supports a ton of different blogging environments as well.