Searching for Offline Blog Editors

During my vacation I noticed the need for an offline blog editor which should have the following features:

• Creation of several blog entries while not connected to the internet
• Inclusion of photos and automatic upload of all pictures when the entry is done (a better image upload function to blogger might make me switch even for online blogging).
• Needs to support Blogger since my blog is hosted there.
• Spell checking and formatting support would be nice but is not essential.
  

I tested the following editors that run under Linux:

• Bleezer: It did not upload the image I put in the text and therefore is unusable for me. Upload of text worked.
• JBlogEditor: The application crashed on me. I tried it a couple of weeks ago and there it worked but it did not convince me and I don't remember the details any more.
• gnome-blog: It does not support uploading of images with blogger. The user interface is rather basic and only the website told me that using drag and drop was the way to add images.
• Drivel: Can not upload images at all.
• BloGTK: I did not test it since it does not seem to be able to upload pictures as well.
• Picasa: Uploading of pictures worked fine but it did not gave the blog entry a title. Unfortunately picaso does not have off-line support and therefore is not an option either.
• Performancing for Firefox: This one uploads photos only to an ftp server but not to blogger.
• Flock: The beta browser looks fine but instead of uploading an image it uploaded the filename of it.
  

During my vacation I used Emacs to write the text, added a short note about which photo should go there - and then spend a couple of hours uploading and formatting everything once I was home again. That's not the way I like it but for now I see no alternative, none of the programs tested supported both uploading of images and offline editing.

I'm interested how others have solved this and whether I have missed a solution.

Fürth Festival - Friend N' Fellow

Just back from the Fürth Festival where we listened to a concert from Friend ´n Fellow. Excellent performance by Constance Friend (vocals) and Thomas Fellow (guitar)! The people at our table didn't know them and were amazed. We already bought their CD "Taxi" (and now ordered "Covered") and therefore went to the concert on purpose - and their live performance is way better. We enjoyed a lot of covered songs and some of their own. Both are experts on their own - and I've been asking myself how often Thomas needs a new guitar, he was sometimes using it as a drum...