Ran Windows Live Writer beta yesterday.

I Supplied it my Wordpress blog address, my user-name and password and was able to see my current blog page and also to create a page from within this application and load it up, just like using Wordpress. Good. Need to investigate whether there is any additional functionality compared to Wordpress.

Exited out of Live Writer and attempted to log-in to Wordpress. No can do. Each time I entered the user-name and password it came back space-filled. Pretty sure that though I had exited out of Live Writer and therefore should not have been logged into my Wordpress account via Live Writer, I was still logged in. Hence why I couldn’t log-in a second time via Wordpress.

Well it is beta software, waddaya expect.

Sitemeter appears to be relaying site visit information a few hours late. So, where its gives the statistics for visits in the last hour it is several hours late. Not a lot of use. Also it shows a lot of site visit duration times as zero. I know I write garbage but nobody could figure that out in zero seconds. This defect is probably linked to the defect that it is several hours late in tracking site visits, Sitemeter knows that somebody from somewhere visited in the last couple of hours, maybe even a specific start time, but as the visitor is not there now, Sitemeter doesn’t know what the visit duration was.

Quote of the day

‘I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy’ W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

Well it restarted ok and everything seemed to work after the 51 system upgrades.

I re-installed MS Defender and nothing crashed. Need to web about a bit to see if Defender is ok though. Downloaded Windows Live Writer which works with Wordpress blogs. Give it the URL, username and password and it gets your header at least and you can then add posts using it rather than Wordpress. Full circle. Back to editing pages on the client rather than the server.

Shutting down the personal confuser this morning resulted in a charming little blue screen. Ain’t life grand. Wonder if this has anything to do with the 51 upgrades. Betcha it has.

Windows appears to be the most vulnerable operating system to virus’s and spyware. If Microsoft ever manages to trap all of these security issues then surely it will be the safest operating system and the virus writers will head for Linux and Apple. How easy is it gong to be for them to break Linux or even Apple. If they really wanted to mangle Linux I’ve got a feeling it won’t be very hard at all and could cause a bit of mayhem.

Quote of the day

‘The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on trying to put things in it’ Terry Pratchett