A new version of Windows Live Writer Beta 2 has just been released! It has an updated look and some additional features. Scott Hanselman has a good post on customizing the interface to provide more features for your specific blog engine.
Window Clippings 2.0 has also been released. There's still a free version, however Kenny has decided to make a lot of the new features only available with a $10 licence. New features include mouse capture, object selection, the ability to crop or expand the image on the fly, as well as add-in support (native and .NET) and post-save image processing. Well worth the purchase if you ask me!
I've been swamped with work at school lately. The end of the quarter always piles a lot on. I'm going to get around to that Silverlight player sometime ...