I wrote about updating my installation of Windows Live Writer to the newest tech preview and now it’s time to share some thoughts and images. Let’s work through the image above to see some updates and improvements: Quick Color Formatting: Not sure if this is new or not but didn’t remember it in the old [...]

One of the tools that has become invaluable to me in publishing posts to my variety of blogs is the Windows Live Writer software that works so brilliantly with WordPress. There’s a new Technical Preview release available for the software that includes the following features: Uploading videos to Soapbox new ways to crop images, including [...]

I had a bit of a Xbox flashback on Sunday night as I ended up meeting with a college friend and since both of us had our wives out of town we decided to take advantage of the moment and play a bit of Halo. Notice I didn’t say Halo 3. We were playing the [...]

If you’ve been reading here very long you’re probably aware that I’ve been teaching myself VB, .NET and SQL over the past couple of years. One of my challenges of learning is that if I’m not using something regularly, I forget it or the information isn’t just sitting in the back of my head waiting [...]

More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger. Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling [...]