It Worked

 

Hey, it worked.  I wonder what else I could do....

Well, this is our house (the one on the right), at the moment I don't know if this program will save this picture as a "one time snapshot" or if it will link it to Microsoft Virtual Earth and, hence, update the picture whenever MS VE updates (don't really know if it will make much difference, but I think about stuff like this).

The new blogging program seems to be working rather well.

It's called "Windows Live Writer" and can be found here.  It's still in beta but seems okay.  I had to tell it where my FTP folder was and such, but that might just be because I host my blog on my own site instead of keeping it on blogger's server.

This article says something about blogging tools being part of Word 2007.  I have beta lying around here somewhere, might have to check that out.

Along with this handy new tool came the option of installing Windows Live Toolbar for Internet Explorer 6, which I would also recommend if only for the added functionality of tabbed browsing that it brings with it (I would not, however recommend the optional Windows Search that comes along with it, I installed that once and didn't find it useful).

---I just used the spell check and the only "errors" that it found were the words "blogging" and "blogger's."  Those words weren't in it's dictionary.  I find that ironic.

hmmmm.....How 'bout the colors? That seemed to work pretty well.

Then there's justifying.

right

left

center

 

Looking good so far.  Of course this will all probably look like absolute garbage in Firefox.

1. The bullets
2. are cute.
3. Let's see if I can change them....
4. Doesn't look like it.  What about numbering?
5. This doesn't look numbered.....

hmmmmm, I think I've found a glitch.

 

Yep, the thing just opened up an "error report" window.  ooops.  I think I'll publish this before it disappears.

--Update...

The irony continues.  Windows Live Writer refuses to publish this post (perhaps inaptly titled "It Worked").  It gives no error, but just keeps trying and trying...

---Update 2.0 "Update United"

Still won't post.  I'm going to try removing the Microsoft Virtual Earth map at the top.

---Update 3

Still won't post, and I just found out that it can't undo after a save (at least it can't undo a map deletion).  The only recourse now is probably to restart Windows and try again.  Or, I could check my ftp settings...hold on.

Nope, everything there looks hunky-dory.