September 2007 Archives

Just playing around with Live Writer and some of the built-in plugins.

There is also a now playing plugin that you manually add, which is good because it's a pain to have it in every single post on a page. Here's what it looks like...

Now Playing: Pixies - Wave of Mutilation - Best of Pixies - Debaser

There is also a "Quote of the Day" Plugin that I may or may not start using if I can remember

Quote of the day:
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Thanks to Owen I found out about another offline blog publishing platform that I wanted to check out. Windows Live Writer is what I am using to type this up. I have a few different sites and sometimes it's hard to keep in my head which ones I am posting to.

I don't think that this will particularly solve that problem because mine is more related to the fact that sometimes I will post to several different sites at the same time and that is what confuses me.

So far I like the setup and the options. This is the only blog I have added to it thus far but I will add the rest shortly.

There are options to add ping servers, which are a must and buttons to insert hyperlinks, photos, tables, maps, tags and videos. I will post more about it and maybe a review on my tech site once I have used it for awhile.

It's somewhat funny. Every time someone at work has a computer issue they always end up coming to me. I don't mind answering questions and stuff but I really don't have the time to fool with fixing them anymore and have had to tell several people that. I do have one here that I seem to have had forever that I am almost done with. I am going to have to move it out of the kitchen for the party though.

Apparently one of my waitresses has a Thinkpad because yesterday she asked me where to buy IBM memory for them, as if I had some kind of secret pipeline. I told her that if she could do the upgrade herself to just do a search online, otherwise she needed to take it back where she bought it and talk with them.

One of the things that our friend in Bluffton has that I am really envious of is a huge projection television. Eventually I want to get a really nice projector but that will really only be good for movies and stuff. During normal day to day watching television I need to use a nice HDTV or projection television. I've been pricing some of the projection televisions on the market and over the last couple of years they've fallen in price quite a bit. At some point over the next year or two I will end up moving the TV we are currently using to the play room and replace it with something bigger.

I'm in the process of moving one of my blogs over to Bluehost to try them out. I haven't heard anything but good references for them so far, they are a fifth of what I am currently paying for hosting and offer more bandwidth. I figure I can try them out for awhile and see if the issues I am having are ironed out over there. If not then I will stay where I am at right now and be out $6.95. It's worth $7 if my sites load faster and the commenting stops taking freaking 60+ seconds.

All I know is that there are plenty of blogs out there with more content and more comments and it takes 10% of the time to post a comment than it does here. I can't have screwed up my installation so much that it is all of my sites.

I will ask a few folks to check it out if they get time once the DNS servers have propagated and I move everything over. It will probably be Saturday or so before I do that.

Have you signed up to win $50 in my post contest yet?

...is usually the last thing you hear before a redneck hurts himself doing something stupid. Believe me, I know from personal experience. In this case though I did want you to check it out. I wrote a review on a piece of software at another site this morning and did this with it...


That's no mean feat for me. I can hack around in Photoshop a little bit but I have never been able to make animated gifs or anything cool like that. I can think of several different bloggers that I may just have to morph... >:

I frequently access my site from my cell phone from work to view new comments. I've slimmed down the page a bit, taking out the ability to comment from the phone and some other stuff and just showing the actual posts themselves. Next week I will work on the CSS a bit and get some color in to the page. If you want to access the PDA page click the link.