So, we are finally getting closer to the long-awaited post (ha!) about posting to drupal from vim. I've been having a lot of fun making this plug-in suit my needs, and making it truly easy to post. Python hasn't been too hard to learn - vim scripting is truly a weird, weird language.
I'm posting this from vim with a plugin taken from yyhh.org. If you can read this, it's working ;-)
Update: My modifications are coming along - the following image was uploaded from Vim... 
more testing