I've become attached to Windows Live Writer as a blogging client. It is much nicer to use then the web based client, and it allows saving local and remote drafts of posts.

I've just had to setup my laptop again, and had to hunt down the settings to allow Live Writer to talk to Blog.cfc (gifted to us by the famous Ray Camden). I've decided to document this for my future needs, and hopefully help anyone else with the same problem.

Configure Live Writer to use the MetaWeblog API, with the following URL: http://example.com/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.cfm (with the correct domain and path to your blog.cfc installation, of course.)

Other blogging clients may use similar settings. If you haven't tried using a blogging client, give it a try.