How to make Drupal as good as Blogger?

Hi All,

I have been using Drupal for awhile now, and like it for so many reasons. But there has been always one area I have not been able to get Drupal to do what I want.... posting blog entries (or whatever you want to call them).

I would like a very simple straight forward way for users to post content with photos without having to know HTML or resize photos. Just exactly the way the blogger.com interface works.

Here is a screenshot -> http://static.eberly.org/misc/blogger.png

Is there a way to accomplish something similar in Drupal? I have tried various wysiwyg editors and found them to bloated or buggy, plus I don't even care about editing font color, etc. just a simple post with an image.

I want to find a solution to my problem without making it a 2 step process, eg. upload image with image module, then post content with image URL.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks in advance, John