Live Writer Update

Okay, one quick update on MY thoughts about the latest Windows Live Writer program.  First of all, after my earlier post (right down below), which I also posted to Twitter  (via the new Live Writer plugin), I got a Tweet from somebody at Microsoft, wanting to know of my concerns! Consider me mightily impressed at that level of customer service!

Overall, the program loads faster than before and runs faster and more smoothly on my old laptop. There still seem to be some quirks (again, maybe because of my machine) but carriage returns at the end of a line sometimes take you back to the beginning of that line, rather than to a new line. And there are still some formatting issues when copying and pasting from bloglines.

But, I’m getting more and more impressed, especially with a wide array of new touches like picture editing, video uploads, etc. I’ll keep playing with it for a while. It appears to be worth it.

Don’t You Love Being a Test Reader?

So, for the third (fourth, fifth) time, I’m giving  Windows Live Writer a test drive. All of the write-ups say it’s a pretty impressive blogging tool. I’ve not been impressed in the past, sluggish (at least on my old laptop!) and it hasn’t liked to format material I copy from bloglines correctly.  Let’s do a little experiment together, shall we?  How does this look?

Scientists 'disappointed, upset,' and 'consternated' that Bush officials misused their work to justify torture.

In the past week, at least three scientists have come out and objected to their work on sleep deprivation being used by the CIA and Justice Department to justify torture. In one of his 2005 memos, the OLC's Steven Bradbury said that sleep deprivation causes "at most only relatively moderate decreases in pain tolerance." But [...]

I’m still not sure. Took a LOT of mouseclicks so far.

Happy New Year!!!

 For some of you, 2008 has already become history, for others (like me) we still have a few hours to go. Since we seldom stay up to celebrate the actual arrival of the new year, we'll call this our New Year's post - at least for now.  I figure the new year can't be any worse than 2008.  I hope.  However, it is disconcerting to see that Microsoft is going to lay off 17% of its staff in January. First a rumor, now confirmed they say.

And, the Middle East continues to make headlines. As does President Bush.

Bush Refuses To Interrupt His Final Vacation As Middle East Crisis Escalates

In an effort to “prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel” with rockets, Israel today undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than 300. The Palestinian casualty numbers have been described as the highest over such a brief period since the [...]

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