Here we go again

hi Guys

I hope everyone is OK

As most people who have ever read any of my missives will know, there are certain commonalities to some of my entries.

1. My Family
2. My Arm/Elbow
3. My Photo's
4. My Sketching/Watercolour
5. My fascination with things computer based and new

The family, and the elbow, are pretty much as they are always were.

 

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Laura's Archery career is,seemingly, progressing nicely. She continues to grow in confidence ( the number of collected medals and trophies certainly grows form week to week). Tomorrow (Sunday 20th Aug) is going to be a Girls day out - Laura is taking her Mum with her on a competition for once. Cathy has always been a wary of going, as she contends that she doesn't have any of the necessary skills to help Laura out if any of the archery gear fails - and I have? There are always plenty of nice, kind people at these events - they should both be OK.

 

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The main reason for this posting is due to the interface that is being used to actually post it (least ways if you are looking at Dave ramblings, That's Life, or Smudgersworld - as these are the only weblogs I have so far had time to setup ).

And that brings us back to Missive fascination number 5 - things Computer based and new.

For the blogs listed above this whole thing has been posted using a program called Windows Live Writer (Beta). Depending on your point of view, this could be seen as:

1. At long last - Microsoft have finally supplied what the Computer Community wants from their favourite services supplier
2. Yee Gods - can't Microsoft not leave alone - yet another aspect of the computing experience that they have to interfere with

Its actually surprised me that Microsoft, through their "late to market" , Spaces weblog system, have actually taken so long to develop (or buy !!!)a weblog client.

To be honest - compared to other programs (i.e Blogjet ) it is basic. I haven't been able to find out if you can publish to multiple blogs (as BlogJet can), and, of course, the easiest type of blog to setup is the Microsoft Live Spaces Weblog. That shouldn't be a surprise I suppose.

Of the other weblogs I use? I guess I shall still use BlogJet for most of them, maybe wBlogger (but their website seems to have "gone off air"), and then i shall still have to log on to Xanga, instead to having all the hard work done for me.