September 21, 2006 — I have created my second plugin for Windows Live Writer which is a tool that will do information lookups via the Amazon.com web service.  This is particularly useful if you want to post about a book you are writing.  The “insert” includes the ability to add the title, author, book image, and a link to…

September 21, 2006 — I was traveling on business this week.  I was in St. Louis for meetings and on my flight there I was able to read “No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas For Your Blog” by Margaret Mason. This book has some great ideas for posts for your blog and they are conveniently…

August 22, 2006 — For the past few days I have been working with the Windows Live Writer SDK and trying to come up with a new plugin more-so to learn how the SDK works and to see what it is capable of. I found a CodePlex group that specializes in WLL plugin design, so I joined.  I noticed…

August 19, 2006 — My brother wrote about the release of Windows Live Writer in a recent entry.  I have been testing this application for some time and have found it to work great with most blog server implementations. dasBlog support seems to be limited, although this is mostly because of dasBlog itself.  I made the switch last month…

August 7, 2006 — On August 1, Windows Live Spaces was launched.  This is the rebirth of the original MSN Spaces which provided users the ability to blog, or otherwise journal on just about anything.  The interface was pretty simple in the first version allowing users to add new entries on the fly from their web browser. In the…