That's "first post" in Slashdot speak. This is the first post from Microsoft's free blogging tool, Windows Live Writer.
So far, I'm liking it. Here's a screenshot of the interface:
Pretty nifty. It's got some cool and easy-to-use image effects you can apply to images. For example here's an embossed image with shadowed border:
Other cool things too, like click to add a map. I've been a big fan of Google Maps, but Microsoft's Virtual Earth maps are winning me over. Here's a map of my house (the ugly orange one ), feel free to click the map for a live, draggable, birds-eye-view of the map:
Plus, it's got nice little utilities for doing formatted text, spell checking, lots of other stuff. And using a real program, rather than some half-baked web interface, to publish blog posts just rocks. It just feels better. Sweet stuff, dah da dum dah da I'm lovin' it.
Oh, and the new style sheets used by the app were generated using another cool free tool, Microsoft Expression Web Designer. Great stuff, cool tools. It's one of those few times when software actually works together and seems enjoyable to use. Woo.
*edit* lol. Really. Laughing out loud. It is ironic that Microsoft's free blogging tool spell checks your post, only to find false positives like "blogging", "screenshot", and "draggable" as mispeld wurds. In a blogging tool. Doh. That's Microsoft for ya. Oh well, I still love the tools.