Raftcicles

While I realize that my readership consists of only myself, I still think that I could inform my audience of a few tips and tricks.  As you all know, I have been working on the Windows Live Writer team for the past months and am fast approaching a year!   It has proven to be fun and I have learned a lot... For the next year I plan on posting a few comments about my Product, my Passion, and my Programming.   All of which will relate back to Window Live Writer.  It should be fun and at least if nothing else very useful for myself :) 

This time I hope to provide some useful tips on the Preferences that WLW offers the user.

Under Tools --> Options...  You will find a host of settings.  There are some which at first are more useful then others.  But some more advanced users may find it the exact opposite.

Lets look at the Preferences page first.

Editing

As you can see saving automatically is turned off by default.  This feature *can* be useful.  That is to say if you only want to take the most recent 'snapshot' of your post.  This is literally like clicking the save button automatically after so many minutes.  Be careful while using this, it isn't as sophisticated as we would like, and can actually cause data loss in some extreme situations.

Post Windows

Something that can be confusing is when you use a 'single window' and click new on an un-edited post, a new window will pop up!  What the heck!!!  It's ok its by design, we feel that its the right move to make.  Essentially its pure cosmetic, people liked seeing something happen when clicking new on a new post.  Because lets think about if you click new on a new post what should happen? Nothing, but then how do you know that new worked? It is a tricky one :)

Publishing

Closing a window after publishing will allow you to close down Writer based on a few situations.  One is 'Always' another 'Only for Blog This'.  Either choice is for the folks that open Writer, and then post within a few minutes and then close down for the next time they blog a post.  It seems like this person would find that they would also like un-checking 'View post after publishing." That way they truly are not nagged about anything upon publishing.   I personally use neither I usually have dozens of open processes on my desktop just waiting to do my bidding!!

I hope that this has been informative for you the users!!

So spaces has a new look and feel to its edit mode.  Apparently you can do all sorts of things very easily now.  One of which is enter edit mode,(by clicking Customize) and select things like: Modules, Themes, Layout, and Advanced.  This is very cool because it becomes very nice to work with now.  Simplicity is the key.

Kool-aid what do you mean... Ok I know its a shameless plug... but I think you will find that is easier to do some things now :)

I really just wanted to get a post up there, and don't really have time to go into detail about my own life... So For the 2 viewers out there (mom, dad... thanks), I thought I would just say what's up and try the new space customization work  :)

Oh and another thing... Add me as a friend K!

And now your moment of Oddness:

As I reflect on Memorial Weekend I realize that there just isn't that much memorializing going on anymore.  I mean come on, there are a LOT of folks, in war, that have risked their lives for me, us and our future me's and us's.  What strikes me as sad is that we as Americans do very little to thank them.  While it isn't possible to thank everyone individually (because most have come and gone before my time) I bid the collective force a great big THANK YOU! Thank you for protecting our families, thank you for protecting me, and thank you for protecting our way of life!

Growing up in the Rogue Valley part of Oregon, there is always a sense of American Pride.  This is directly because of the 'small town of America' look and feel.  It is something that (after the extinction of the logger) has become the predominant source of new income to the area.  One event that attracts many visitors is Boatnick.  The similarity to Seattle's own 'Sea Fair' is quite literally uncanny!  There is a carnival, also a jet fly by (not quite Blue Angles but loud and gets your blood going), and lets not leave out the Boats.   Three days of racing different types of boats up and down the river. 

There is much more then the average Small Town America to the Rogue Valley.  Namely Its Proximity to other things. Like white water rafting!!  For this (Rose's first trip down... and oh yes there will be more :P), we decided to take a small diversion to the California Redwoods, as it was a bit cold for rafting :(  These trees are magnificent. They range in size from 'Ultra-Mega-Huge' to 'Good-God-These-Things-Are-Insanely-Enormous.'    We started the 'trek' by driving down a long dirt/gravel road to get the back side of a costal jungle.  There was some off-road running as we blazed a path from point A (going through the alphabet 2 times) and wound up at point ZZ, which in some fluke of math turned out to be both 5 miles and about 10 feet from point A.   There was enough running to satisfy 2 half-marathoners with plenty of blunders worthy of Spanky's Ladder!  We rounded off the trip with some Smith River rock jumping, followed by a bear sighting (thanks Cat!) and Fireworks to end it all.

Please enjoy the pics of Memorial Weekend:

So this new tool that I told you all about. Well I am on the team now! Its fun and I don't want to go out and just be raving about something that I work on... SO I will make a pledge to keep my blog up to date... That should be fun.  I already have a few posts queued up (yea you can save them with this new tool).  They should be finalized in the next week or so... Oh and they will be posted to both my blogs if you can find the other one you will notice how similar they are. 

The Topic will include:

• Buying a New Car and That Story
• Trip to DC
• A Ferry Ride (and no Marc not that kind)
• The Redwoods
• Another Graduation!

I hope that you will all enjoy It will take me a few days to finish the rest BUT As soon as I start publishing you will see a new one everyday, why? Because we can set it up that way, make it automatic :O)

 If you would like to try it out please visit
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I find that the Internet is so vast that on any given Saturday you can inundate your mind with so much about one topic that it will hurt... and hurt badly.  But is there any perspective?  Is there anything that can really be gleaned? Insight?

I have found a site. A blog, that has insight, balance, and perspective.  In the old days of community, the sick were treated by the community. The powerful were given lead, and the weak protected.  The young were taught.  And ALL respected the old, for there was the true wisdom.

In my humble opinion, http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/ should be at the very least looked at, and certainly respected!