I didn't want to admit it to myself I guess;  the fact that when I post to my subtext blog via Windows Live Writer it says "sending ping".  I would see that and it would puzzle me, because I wrote a plugin for the forthcoming subtext plugin framework that actually sends a ping to ping-o-matic when you post to your blog.  But the framework has no way at present to communicate with the user to say "sending ping"  or "ping sent successfully"  or even "Hey now brown cow" should that be what is deemed best to say after sending a ping.  Anyhow, somewhere in the recesses of my vast throbbing pink brain I realized that I must've set something in Windows Live Writer for it to send a ping, because it surely never did so before.  After poking around, I stumbled upon it, and the realization began to set in; that I actually found this preference and set it.  And in the darkness before the dawn I wept, for it meant that with the rising sun would come a new day when, safe in the knowledge that I had *some* way to send a ping after posting, I would journey forth thusly on some new task or plugin (one that would not require any interaction with the user [:p}).  And now, despite how you may feel about using WLW over the native subtext interface or the new digs of Word 2007, I nonetheless present you with a screenshot of the "needful".  Go.  Set your preference.  Forget all you've seen here.  Quickly.  Go now!