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Well this is pretty cool, I’ve just installed Windows Live Writer beta and am making this post using its nice WYSIWYG interface.   This is a winning app.   It allows posting to multiple blogs, automatically detected the blog software for each type, and displays your post using the style indicated by the blog.   If you change your theme, the interface changes to support it.  It also has built in spell checking support for image uploads and mapping. 

I highly recommend that anyone using other free blogging tools at least take a look at this software.

I’ve been using Vista Beta 2 and its interim CTP releases as my primary OS for about 2 months now.  It looks like MS is going to ship another beta a release candidate of Vista soon.  This despite the two post Beta 2 interim releases which were still not as baked (IMHO) as any previous OS’ beta 2 I’ve used.   I do have some perspective on this as I’ve been beta testing MS development tools and OS’s since NT 3.0.   I’m a big fan of Vista overall, but relative to what it is promising the product just isn’t ready yet.  I can’t help but think that the Windows group’s definition of Release candidate is somehow out of line with the industry.  Foisting a build that isn’t truly ready for real world apps Allowing us the privilege of using a complete more usable build is a something I am really looking forward to.  

. A picture of a picture of me with my team beloved RedSox World series trophy.

Here’s one of the wackiest things ever.

The AMD & HP had their party at Anthem – Boston.   I won a pretty decent AMD processor.   It was a great party good food, but I heard through the grapevine that the intel party was just a bit better the night before.

Need a vendor for a Microsoft technology?  If you don’t see them here they aren’t on the map yet.

Some blokes showed that they never let DEV320 Get in the way of football. World cup rules!

The convention center had about 10 TVs set up around the convention center showing FIFO World Cup.   Always a crowd and always a smile (or grimace) depending upon who scored…  Great to see the Convention Center showing this event!

The demo of extending TFS (Team Foundation Server) showed just how much design went into making the product easy to modify. Hopefull this will spur the development of all types of add-ins.  Development leads and PMs should look at how simple it is to modify the existing project creation templates to add custom requirements to their project tasks and workflow. 

At TechEd, I am staying at the Boston Sheraton near Fenway park. Up on the corner is the oldest continuously operating firehouse in the country.  It was established in 1878. At home, I’m a firefighter and a lifelong Red Sox fan too! This shirt was too cool to pass up.