Monday, April 13, 2009

New Blog writing tools

The really really observant might have noticed my HTML has improved – not my doing, I’ve started using Windows Live Writer, which corrects my sloppy HTML – adding <tbody> tags for instance. It has impressive integration with non-Microsoft blog hosting services. The most obvious give away is the location maps I can now easily add to entries. Another upside is that it is an offline editor, yet more reasons for me not getting so far behind in updating what has become a sporty, musical travelogue rather than a collection of truly random thoughts – I did say it was a holding title – which has now stuck!

Another tool from the Microsoft house I may switch to is their images stitching software ICE from Microsoft Research – below is an example of it’s unassisted work – the view of a storm rolling in from my balcony on my recent holiday to Mauritius. Now I just need to find some software I can actually use without multiple command line options and writing XML to produce some HDR images…

View from room 2048 Beau Rivage

 

Hopefully this end my two weeks of catching up with Blog entries. maybe I’ll try to introduce more randomness to my updates…

1 comment:

James Hammick said...

I've finally managed to get the description of the blog to centre - and updated the description to reflect the current contents...