Great pic from the Lijit 2nd birthday party.
If you look real close, you can even see that he is writing a blog post for the Lijit blog.
It’s about time that little monster started earning his keep.
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Read this pretty hilarious article on nytimes.com.
Either the first guy inspired the second guy or the second guy went crazy due to his job in IT (you have to be a little crazy just to get hired in this industry). Basically, two people thought it would be cool to climb up the NY Times building yesterday. I am pretty sure there is a larger than normal mass of crazy in New York right now. My favorite part is the quote from the police inspector in charge of the scene/arrest : “That’s the last climber today.” . At least he isn’t over-committing . He totally gets the whole “under promise , over deliver” work ethic.
I am always looking for a better blog posting tool. The built in TinyMCE stuff on wordpress is cool, but there are still some barriers to actually making blog posts. Image uploading can be tedious(although better in 2.5) .
I decided to try Windows Live Writer today. The main reason I even considered it, was due to the cool image editing and transformation tools it sports. You can easily insert pictures, and video, and then give the images custom borders(rounded corners, drop shadow etc).
The ability to do this editing inline makes it a valuable tool.
If I can keep it from crashing when switching from preview mode to edit mode, I may stick with it for a while. It is after all a tech preview, and stuck with a bastardized IE8 install on my win32 box. If you want to give it a try, you know what to do.
UPDATE:
In the event someone was having the same crashing issues I had, it could be the MS Script Debugger for Internet Explorer. You can disable script debugging at Tools->Internet Options->Advanced . Once the javascript errors stopped popping up, the Live Writer client would stay alive.
UPDATE 2:
The kind folks on the Windows Live Writer team let me know that this particular issue should be fixed in the next public release. Kudos to them for paying attention to their users, and reaching out when they didn’t have to. They have at least one convert, and I am recommending it to my blogging co-workers as well.
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