28 Nov 06 Useful Tools
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of much Microsoft. It took a long time for me to warm at all towards Windows XP, and even now there is much about it to mutter about – not least the rigaramole that sometimes confronts you when upgrading, or when the registry gets corrupted beyond salvation, and no restore point, or registry backup will save you, as Windows refuses to load at all, even in safe mode, and in one recent case, the CD refused to even put a new copy of Windows on the drive as it kept finding the old, corrupted one, and stopping with a BSOD.
Anyway, a slight redemption comes with Windows Live Writer. I am using it now, and it is a very easy and useful tool for blogging. Simply add the Blog URL, your username and password, and it goes off and finds your blog, downloads the template, and you’re ready to blog! If you can use WordPad you can use, Live Writer, it’s that easy! You can even drag and drop pictures off your desktop or explorer into it whilst you type, and set margins around them; add live links; add tags.
A brand new tool I have jsut (in the last hour) downloaded, is Diigo – yes that not mispelt. IT looks to be a useful bookmark saving type tool, much like del.icio.us – I’ll write more in this when I’ve played around with it for a while. I’m going to be trying out it’s daily posting facility at The Eye
28 Nov 06 3BT
I think it’s almost more interesting to post 3BT when it’s NOT been one of the best days in one’s personal history.
I always try not think of any days being bad, but obviously some are more enjoyable than others!
1. The warm afternoon sunshine. Sitting here working with the sun room door open, and the outside temperature at 75F in late November is something I will always enjoy and never take for granted.
2. Kathy’s home-made carrot cake. OK, so the base was a Betty Crocker box, but after Kathy had added walnuts and raisins to the mix it was truly delightful. That’s a big plus from me, as I seldom ever eat cake – except cheesecake!
3. Blogging. Taking an hour towards the end of the day to read a few blogs such as Three Beautiful Things from which I was inspired to start my own, albeit occasional, 3BT postings. I know very few people read my blog, unlike the 180 visits a day Clare says she receives. I don’t care. It’s all good fun anyway, and I like writing. This is strange really, as I hated essays when I was at school, and always vowed I’d never take up writing. Ok, so I’m not a writer by profession, but I do actually enjoy writing these days! Go figure!
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