The previous incarnation of LiveWriter would not, for some mystical and mysterious reason, not work with Windows LiveWriter.
It would seem that this version does. In words of my late and almost sainted mother, “This is a good thing.”
When we moved our office and started using new computers, we didn’t realize that all of the settings for the off line blog editors were not copied over. Grazing Press= is the last of the active Famous Grazing blogs not set up to be used by an offline editor.
We’re going to try and correct that on this, a “day off.”
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When I write a blog entry I never expect anyone to read it. That is why it was a total shock to find one I had recently written while in a philosophical mood on Belltowernews.com.
It was seen by me as mostly an historical observation. The almost instant remarks referring to me as a person of opposite political opinion of the commenter but using words that require the vocabulary of a school yard bully were a surprise to say the least.
We have a universal policy of not posting comments that relay on profanity to support their opinion. We will never hesitate to post any comment written cohesively & without commercial intent.
We’ve discovered the cause of the problem we were having with SquareSpace online blog creator and manager and Firefox RC3.
It was the LastPass add-on the Firefox. I inadvertently, meaning clumsily clicked through a pop-up box without reading it. LastPass was filling in fields I had mindlessly instructed it to fill.
Thus, every time I brought up the editor, it filled in the blanks and defaulted to the Fathers Day entry, during the creation of which the offending action on my part took place.
When there is a technical problem we always first ask, “Is it plugged in?” Now when we have Firefox problem, we need to ask, “Is it a plug-in?
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Until now we have used Grazing Press as a backup for the Belltowernews.com blog. This started during the Blogger.com reorganization into the Googlesphere. Because we had an extremely configured blog that did not comply with the laws set down by the new masters, Belltowernews.com was down for a few months.
So as not to be off the grid entirely, we published here. Now that Belltowernews has its own domain and seems to have stabilized, we plan to return this blog back to it original intent, to comment on the news.
We were inspired to get around to do doing this by a recent Twitter comment made by Dave Winer on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees blog.
It had given me pause for thought to believe man who presents himself as an open thinker as Mr. Obama would subscribe to mentoring from a man who has been profiled by the common press as something close to a monster. In reading the above mentioned piece I saw an entirely different slant to the purpose of his sermon.
So, this blog will now be devoted to commenting on the three to four hundred news hits in my Google Reader each morning. It will not focus on politics, celebrity, money or yellow journalism, but on what I personally think is a story of some interest.
Don’t expect there to be any great number of blog entries in the near future. There are six other Famous Grazing Blogs up that too are seeking a focus away from Belltowernews. Let us bring the sheep into the pasture and see on which plants they feed.
If you are a fan of Cali Lewis, her Flickr page may be of some interest. If you aren’t a fan, on what planet do you reside??
I just went through 55 Boing-Boing RSS feeds and found nothing worth linking to this evening.
This applies, oddly enough to Lifehacker as well.
There was a piece saying the product Airborne Cold prevent-er was really crap. I knew that already, but wasn’t sure on the veracity of the reports source, so, no link.
Twitter in Plain English somewhat explains the way Twitter works. I just haven’t figured out how to add URL’s to it yet. Give me time, I will. I know I can post a URL naked, but I want to make it as a link, the way we do on this blog. I looked into the hash mark (#) linking, but that’s not what I want right now.
Windows Fanatics has a message about the Top 5 Music Web Sites. I have been to each of the sites listed. My favorite is AccuRadio . LastFM starts when I start MediaMonkey. Pandora puts you on a Junk Mail List and is very annoying for that reason alone.
There is a lot of traffic about the Google Calendar synch with Outlook. But the Robert Scoble is asking why aren’t you using Plaxo?
Switched from AccuRadio to Net@Night.
Here’s a surprise: Ziff Davis applies for bankruptcy. (New York Times)
If you use Picasa here are 10 tips to improve your photos.
The conversation on Net@Nite is covering a site called DropIO. I just set up an account there. I think this will be of great us to us.
I thought I would listen to the latest net and night with Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte. I expected geek talk.
Amber mentioned a YouTube video with Jimmy Kimmel and Ben Afflect declaring their love for each other. It is genuinely funny. The Sara Silverman video that lead to the creation of this video is not as funny, more vulgar.
Though we’re not sure we’ll use it much, we installed Pidgin after reading this Lifehacker page.
It is very hard to go read my RSS pages while listening to Leo and Amber because they are going over and over about this and that link. I need to pause the show to get his page finished. DISTRACTION!!!
This Lifehacker page listing 157 of PC Magazines favorite something or other is not worth going to for the link to PC Magazine, but to read the ranting of the commentary trashing PC Magazine. Whoa! I thought most of this sort of ranting was preserved for Microsoft and the Royal Family.
If you haven’t read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, this is the last time I am putting up this link because the free on-line version will not be up that much longer. I love this book and have three copies of it. One to keep and two to lend out to friends.
I thought I would post the page on Speedwords, but found it boring. Google it if your are interested.
If this article was available to me months ago it would have been easier for me to settle down to the two blog writers I use most, Scribefire and Windows Live Writer.
Again, as with most pages like this, read the comments. w::bloggar is mentioned. I think that was my first blog writer.
Quick Links before bed.
Those Inexplicable Traffic Jams
Free Starter Kit Give Away from Seventh Generation
Say Goodnight Gracie!
As I sit here listening to the Tech Guy from 2-24-08 cover on-line addiction, I have added Twitter Remarks to the sidebar of Belltowernews.com. I still don’t quite get Twitter, but I feel I will use it more now that it is on Belltowernews. The same additions are made with the Google Reader link right above the Twitter Remarks.
Matt Richtel spoke to Leo About his book Hooked. I went to Kindle on Amazon.com and downloaded the sample. I have feeling I might buy the entire book. This is the good feature of the Kindle. You can download the introduction and first chapter and then decide if you want to buy the entire book. I consider it virtual browsing.
The first item on the graze list is the Lifehacker article on synching the workflow twixt Picasa and Flickr.
Lifehack.org, not to be confused with Lifehacker.com had an article on how to find anyone on-line. It isn’t about searching for a particular person but about finding someone of the type with whom you may want to communicate.
A second link to Lifehack.org has to tips about the most effective way to use email. You may think you are savvy about email, but reading this short article may surprise you.
Here is a good one. A person who had may job two holders ago saved a lot of files in the wps format. To open them I went to an older compute with MS Works installed. Here is a link to the eHow site on the easy way to convert the .wps file to .doc files.
Another recommendation from the Tech Guy podcast is the program Audacity for recording single microphone podcasts.
An add aside: I am not sure what combination of keys I just hit, but for some reason Dreamweaver just started up and loaded downloading.php. How Odd!
The last link for the evening is to this photo of Babe Ruth in a Boston Red Sox Uniform taken in 1919, before the curse of the Bambino.
Good Night!
The first link listed by a newly added feed, Laughing Squid in San Francisco is about San Francisco Liberation Radio. I thought it might be insightful, interesting or at the very least funny. It was self important, attention getting and raided by a government agency. What fun. -S-
Laughing Squid has been sited by several of the more sophisticated on-line commentators. We won’t give it the hook just yet. Tick-tick
The DownloadSquad displayed a systems utility to transform the PrntScrn button to actually print the screen rather than copying the screen to the clipboard.
In the comments section of the program’s page, there is a comment touting another program called Gadwin System. I have never heard of it but its home page is open and will look deeper into it later.
I saved a few news pieces to read about the coming war in South America. It would appear we have a few macho men just itching for a fight. Sound familiar? I won’t bother posting links because this is an ongoing situation and the content will be ever changing.
Freeware Files displayed a 1.3 version of Able RAWer. This is a graphic handler for RAW files to be downloaded directly from the camera. I currently use Picasa for this. The interesting thing is there was an ad for Picasa running on this page.
I am not sure why I saved the link to WordPress, but it was on my list, so, go start yourself a blog. Enjoy!
If you’re interested in the show on BBC called Torchwood, this article from TV Squad will tell you more than you want to know prior to seeing the show. If you have seen it, reading this article may give you insight into the motivation for this episode’s creation. This does rate a SPOILER ALERT!!
IMAP pros and cons from downloadsquad.
Daily Blog Tips is an interesting page if you blog.
The last link was to a song called Cake. Unfortunately my script blocker on Firefox displayed a half dozen blocked scripts that would have to be activated to hear the song. One, maybe as many as three scripts I can understand. When the number gets higher than that, the page writer is up to something.
That’s the evening graze. If we stay up late, which we rarely do on a Sunday night, we may post one more today.
From MakeUseOf.com is this link to an entry on Windows screen Docks. It is a very thorough listing. I am not a fan of screen docks because I make most use of the Quick Launch tool bar in Windows XP. But for those who like bells and whistles, docks are good.
If you’re looking for some interesting feeds to add to the feed-reader you use, the downloadsquad site as a huge number of RSS tags on a broad set of platforms and on-line applications.
I picked three of the hundreds of available feeds. I know this will bite me if we abandon the reader for a day or two.
We’ve been mystified by Twitter for quite a while. Perhaps this link to Webware’s article Newbie’s Guide to Twitter will help.
This Shorpy.com photograph of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh taken in 1929, four months after they were married, is a marvel in the detail of their features as well as the airplane in front of which they are standing. The blurb below is worth reading as well.
The Ultimate Guide to GMail Collection of over 80 Tips.
The next link was to intense debate.com. This site has been mentioned in other blogs and podcasts. We tool the comments add-on and installed it on Belltowernews.com.
Just another added feature.
And finally, just for fun, if you live and work in Cambridge, The Periodic Table on steroids…
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