I am Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all my loyal readers that helped me achieve this award. Special thanks go to my wife, Christine, and family that have sacrificed so much so that I could write these blog posts.

Person of the Year- You

Amazing how much times have changed.

This is an article about my mom from a long time ago (obviously). She was one of the first kids to get the polio vaccination. Do you see anything odd about how much information the newspaper provided about an 8 year old child? Name, age, address, school, parents names. I'm surprised they didn't just put her whole daily schedule in the paper.

Trying out Windows Live Writer

I was unhappy with the blog editor in Blogger so I've been searching for a desktop blog editor that I can use instead. After spending way too long searching for one, I decided to try out Windows Live Writer (by Microsoft). The software is still in beta, but it looks promising.

One of the things I wanted to try out is uploading photos with my post. Here's a picture of my family at a recent Luau we had in our backyard (the picture is actually taken in front of a wall hanging in our basement). Unfortunately this feature did not work for me. When I tried to publish the post, Live Writer said Blogger did not support image upload. I ended up using Picasa to upload the file which meant I had to create a post and then delete it :(.

Being new to blogging, I'm not sure what features to really look for, but Live Writer seems to have all the features I can think of, including several different views such as normal, web layout, web preview (includes template), and HTML code (it seems to create reasonable HTML) and a spell checker (very handy to avoid embarrassing myself to badly). It's also built to be extensible, and with Microsoft backing it, it's likely to have a lot of good extensions soon. The fact that it's free is compelling as well (hopefully it will stay that way).

If you are interested in a good review of this software, check out Writer is Microsoft's first Live killer app on ZD Net.