Windows Live Writer – Coming of Age

If you do a little more on the internet than update your facebook and Twitter, one of the best websites on the internet is Makeuseof.com.

It has many entries regarding Windows Live Writer.  In January of this year, they did the rare thing in recommending WLW,  a MS product. In truth I would say they go to great lengths to find products alternative to the MS software.  We have absolutely no problem with that.

It makes writing for a blog as simple as writing a document.  With add-on such as Zemanta, Cross Post, Digg This, Picasa, Amazon Quick Link, and many more, it saves a lot of legwork when designing the blog entry.

Sometimes the add-on that recommends links has it’s own quirks.  When I wrote “WLW” for Windows Live Writer, it created a link to Google Maps showing what appears to be the tower for a radio station in…  Cincinnati.  So, don’t just blindly accept the links it throws you.  Most of them have been fine, but still, it is posting the link on your blog.

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American Gods: A Novel By Neil Gaiman

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We came home from work yesterday expecting to watch the CSI episode about the Star Trek-like convention with its murder and the ongoing story of the lab non-romance.

We fired up the old rear projection TV that refuses to die.  We clicked on the TiVo menu and started to play what we thought would be the show.  Instead, for the first twenty minutes or so, the cable company’s pay for view menu scrolled by. 

For no apparent reason, the channel switched back to CSI.  (I think it’s our neighbor’s automatic sprinkler, but that’s another story.)

Without a blink my wife and I said, Okay, we’ll each watch the first twenty minutes on Hulu, and then return to the big screen to watch the rest.  It’s the “without a blink…” part that has me thinking this morning.  No more, Gee Whizz, no more, Wow! We can do that???

It’s become commonplace.

Aside from that, here are two interesting  lists I found floating around on FeedDemon this morning:

Listverse: The first is 10 Christ-like Figures who Pre-Date Christ.

and

Lifehacker – Top Money-Saving Guides for Common Purchases.
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A Lot of Stuff About Dreams

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On Facebook and elsewhere on the web there seems to be a lot of “stuff” about dreams of the future. That and the phrase “Considering The Economy…”

I feel as if it might be a good time to resurrect Busby Berkeley and Frank Capra .  The tune to Happy Days are Here Again is ringing in my ears.

My mother was a flapper. My father a man about town. 

They never called themselves children of The Depression.

Depression is a clinical state of mind.  It never caught on with them and then, poof!  World War II and suddenly, or so it appeared, it was gone.

Another phrase: “Nothing will ever be the same…” is used when I think they really mean, nothing will like the imagined state of credit supported happiness that sustained us for more than a decade.

Will the job “Laborer” creep back into the American Culture.  If you browse the Shorpy’s website, you will see photos from just after the civil war into the first third of the last century.  You will see the faces of families where every member, from young children on up, went to the factory each day. 

Look at their faces, their lean faces.  These are not happy people.  But these are people with a dream, a dream for us, the coming generations.  Why do I feel as if we let them down?

I will keep my dream of the future limited to waking the next day and being able to get out of bed.  It’s a start.

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We’ve Been Away Too Long

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During a different lifetime, I think I am up to my fourth, we lived in the middle of all the action in Manhattan.

It’s not where I started but still I feel its from where I am.

That being said, I was sad to discover just now, reading The New Yorker’s RSS Feed, I found none of this week’s cartoons funny.

Not one.

What this means to me is we’ve been away too long.  The Billy Joel song, New York State of Mind is buzzing in my subconscious.  “The New York Times, The Daily NEWS.”

As with most thing, this too will pass.

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This Amazon Link Thing

I have been sitting on this Amazon.com link thing since it started.

If you troll back through the almost five years of blogs created here you will see many book links.  I only posted them when I thought the book worthy of recommendation.

Lately, I’ve been using Amazon more for groceries and music.  It never occurred to me to post links to that.  But then Amazon.com sent me a link to their discount pages, 15, 25 even 50% off items I have already been ordering from their subscribe page.

http://tr.im/AmGroc contains a link that takes you to their discount grocery sale.  It ends April 29th.

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We’re Trying Cross Posting

Using Windows Live Writer, and its plug-in Cross Pollinator, http://tr.im/XPol – we should be able to post this to the other Famous Grazing blogs.

The instructions were found at http://tinyurl.com/c4sh5n.
Simpler instructions can be found at http://tinyurl.com/dlgn6a

For the first attempt at single cross posting, we will leave out graphics and confine the posting to linked content.

UPDATE: The first attempt didn’t work.  The xPollinate Add-on is not appearing in our list.  We’re now trying WLW Cross-Post Plug in.  Its icon did appear in the Add-on list.

A note dated 4/2/09 at the bottom of the CodePlex page states that xPollinator is not appearing in some versions of LiveWriter.  We’re using Build 14.0.8050.1202 en, according to MS, the latest update.

Because this add-on would be of great use to us, we’re going to keep coming back to it.

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April Sure Looks Like March

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You won't see anything resemling this cactus flower anywhere in the wild around here.

The good news we missed the April Fools Blizzard again. I still kept the shovels and salt out on the front porch until April second.

To get over the Winter Blues I absolutely guarantee you will be emotionally moved by the music conducted by Gustavo Dudamel http://tr.im/GDudamel for TED. Tingles the spine.

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