I updated this blog on Windows Live Writer Beta

I downloaded the Windows Live Beta package (Messenger, Call, Writer, Photo Gallery and Mail) just for the fun of it (I do this a lot, install and uninstall applications just to see how they work) and decided to try updating my blog using Windows Live Writer Beta.

It claims to make blogging super easy (ok, I added the word “super” in easy). Best of all, you can blog on Writer Beta and publish to most blogging services.

I just followed a few simple steps and am now updating my blog as WYSIWYG – literally. Instead of writing in that boring white box,  I’m writing on the actual template of my wordpress blog. Just a simple switch from edit to preview tab, I get to see how my blog entry would look like after I press publish. Not that I need to press preview because I’m literally blogging on a “previewlike” window anyway.

Adding photos and resizing them for the blog is almost automatic. You just pick the size that you want and you’ll see the size differences in real time. No having to be redirected to a new page to see the result.

Screen shot from my last blog entry. This is edit view.

Interested? You can download the entire Beta package at http://download.live.com/

Apart from the ones I mentioned earlier, also available for download are Movie Maker, Toolbar, Family Safety and Microsoft Office Outlook Connector – all Betas. You may download all or just chose the ones you need.

I shall try some of these later and I’ll make sure to remember to blog about them.Seriously, Microsoft should pay me for this.

Cry baby

Ladies and gentleman, I have turned into a sappy person.

I was watching The Nanny Diaries earlier and I cried and cried and cried. Did anyone else bawl their eyes out when when Grayer said “I love you” to Annie for the first time? When he chased after Annie in the taxi? When Annie spilled her guts out to the nanny cam?

 

Does anyone else also think that only in movies do nannies met Harvard

 

Hottie’s and have the HH fall hopelessly in love with them?

I didn’t buy that part at all but I guess it’s necessary to throw in a love interest for the young, sexy nanny – Scarlett Johansson really does have curves at all the right places. And I totally saw that scene coming — when Mr X hit on Annie only to be caught by Mrs X. I hate the guy who plays Mr X (he’s the same guy who plays the movie producer from Big Fat Liar, only he was slimmer in BFL) .

I read a review of the film a long time ago and that review was not very kind to the film. But I think it’s funny, sweet and honest.

At the very least, it made me think about my career and where I want to be. Do I want to stay where I am right now or should I make arrangements to move forward, somewhere else?

While watching the film, you question Annie’s motives for staying. If she can’t stand her employers so much, why stay? In her case, she stayed for Grayer, the child born with a silver spoon but so starving for attention from his parents.

Like Annie, we stay in our jobs for many reasons. It could be because of friends, because we’re so comfortable with the routine or because we feel that we can save that “child”. It could also be for all the reasons above,

But whatever the reason that makes us stay (or go), we have to make sure that it is for the RIGHT reason. Because we want to. Not for nostalgia, not for money or any other “wrong” reasons.

If we’re like Annie and we “think” we have to stick around because someone needs us (despite the thought of spending another day at the workplace makes us want to scream), then it’s probably time to reassess the situation.

Superheroes need a break too and the problem needs to learn to solve itself.