Windows Live Writer is pretty cool!

So I know I don't update this thing enough, and have been looking for ways to more easily and simply (and QUICKLY) post blog entries. A bunch of my more technically savvy (READ: geeky) friends like to "bang the metal" and dig down into code, but I simply do not have the time nor knowledge to do so. Well, you've seen my attempts at mobile blogging, and now comes Windows Live Writer. I ran across this on the Windows Live Ideas page (http://ideas.live.com/), thinking at first it was the live MS Word type thingy I had heard about. but no, it is a blogging tool for easily putting together blog posts and posting them to your blog (whether it be Blogger, MSN Spaces, whatever). The nice thing is that it has a plug in architecture that gives you new functionality. Though only a few plugins are out at this point, here are some examples of stuff that I really like and have downloaded for it:

I can insert pictures from my hard drive....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...or directly from Flickr...

If I want to quickly show you a map of wear I work, hey, I can do that too:

 

How about a notification for an upcoming event?

Headgamer kicking butt in XBLF in Vegas, baby! Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:00 PM

I can enter a table really quickly with stuff like results and things (though I probably will never use it, it is neat).

Gamertag	Kills	Deaths
Headgamer	8	0
zer0	0	1
Davidson	0	1
Team_Binky	0	1
Ram2600	0	1
Lulu	0	1
Lilbones	0	1
Keg O War	0	1
Asphyxiate	0	1

(a guy can dream, can't he?)

And I always am a sucker for those Quote of the Day kind of things:

Quote of the Day:
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
--Josh Billings

And finally, I can show off my measly gamercard...

 

So, these are just a few things you can do quickly with Live Writer and some plugins. Now it is still in beta and seems rough in beta. I have had lots of errors and crashes, both with Writer itself and some of the third party plugins. Hopefully this stuff will eventually get ironed out though.

Valley High Homecoming 2006

Well, I took Connor and Luke to Valley's homecoming game last night. This
weekend is my 20th year class reunion and a bunch of us got together for
the game. Here's a few shots from my Treo from the game... I would have
taken more pics but was too busy talking with old friends...

It was Connor and Luke's first football game and they loved it! Did just
what I used to do when I was a kid at games...find other kids to play with
and run around for half the game...LOL

It was funny... Cheerleaders doing the same cheers... Band playing the same
songs... I told everybody all we needed were parachute pants, izod shirts,
and big poofy hair and it'd be like we were back in high school again....LOL

Old Rog McDonald...classmate of mine that I have known since
Kindergarten... Is now the head football coach at our old Alma Mater.. was
pretty cool seeing him running up and down the sidelines calling out
plays... He's got our Rams at 7-1 and already qualified for State! He's
like our new Coach Lockeridge...

Anyway, it was great seeing a bunch of old friends... We have a
couples/adults only get together again tonight, so I'm looking forward to
it...

Trying mobile blogging

Just wanted to try out mobile blogging and see how it does. This will
probably be the best way for me toget back into blogging...

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