Year: 2006

Windows Live Writer Beta Released

Despite my usual (probably misplaced) dislike of all things Microsoft I decided to try out Windows Live Writer after some good initial reviews. It seems to work really well with WordPress and despite being a Beta I haven’t had any issues as yet stability wise. It’s just a really nice and simple tool to edit and post to your blog in a full WYSIWYG way. I have to admit its easier to use than the inbuilt WordPress offering however time will tell this being the second post using the tool.

There is a new blog from the developers of Windows Live Writer from which you can download the Beta version here

I think maybe I’m changing too much at once, replacing  MS outlook at home, switching to tablet PC and now switching my blog editor !

AirSet PIM

Recently I’ve been trying to rid myself of Microsoft products and looking at online alternatives. So far I’ve switched my main email over to gmail whilst using Mozilla Thunderbird as a POP client onto my gmail account and this is working great. One thing I was missing however was a calendar, Thunderbird currently only has a Beta plugin to handle calendars plus I really wanted something accessible online and could be easily shared. First I looked at Google Calendar, it’s got a nice UI, it’s speedy, integrates into your google search homepage as with GMail but it was lacking one crucial thing, sync with my Palm PDA. After much searching I gave up trying to sync (I did have some success with the opensource remotecal add-in for Outlook but as I wanted to ditch Outlook this was pointless). Anyway then I found AirSet, this is a great online personal information management tool, which provides group and personal calendars, contacts, blog and more. The biggest factor for me was the nice little hotsync component they supply that lets me sync the Palm so I can add appointments or contacts on the Palm or online, very handy!

Anyway go www.airset.com to register for a free airset account and try it for yourself

Amerton Farm

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Today me, Miles, Mummy and Daddy went to Amerton Farm which is in Stowe by Chartley, Staffordshire. We went on the carousel, had a picnic lunch and then played in the play barn which was my favourite as there were lots of slides and bridges and other things to play on. Miles liked it so much he didn’t want to come away.

You can find more information on Amerton Farm here

Annabel

Site Hacked :(

Appologies but the site has been down between Sunday evening and Monday morning (3rd April) as some bunch of script kiddie monkies decided to carry out a web site defacement. Essentially they replaced all my index files with the following;

Fatal Error 2006 – bY: owz

Looking this up on zone-h.org revealed that this is being carried out by a defacement team and thus far they’ve hit around 26196 sites! Nice work you brain dead morons !!!

Anywho no real harm done as I have a backup so the site is functioning again (aside from the gallery which I’ll fix this evening). Check the following link to see what sites have been hit zone-h.org

Joe

This week oi ave been mostly….

Listening to the Kleptones. The band create music by doing ‘mashup’ remixes of existing music. I’m currently listening to the album ‘Night at the Hip Hopera’ which is excellent, kind of Queen meets Hip Hop. They also have a new album out called ’24h Hours’ which includes the track ‘Babua Number One’ which is my current favourite. Both these albums and a few more are available for free, yes FREE, from their site at www.kleptones.com just go to the downloads area…..enjoy

Joe