Well, if you can see this entry, then my copy of Windows Live Writer beta has worked!
Windows Live Writer works with WordPress (the blogging system/server that this is written on) and allows you to create your blog entries off line and then publish them once you are re-connected. It means that I can now add entries about things that I have bumped into and got exceited about – as and when I discover them – rather than weeks later – or when I can no longer remember the details (I am not as young as I once was).
Really useful stuff that I bump into..... 
Greetings!..o