It’s not every day we get to brush elbows with champions.  I was (un)fortunate enough to do just that recently.

When my server went down a few days ago I was very frustrated.  It really cramped my day as I could not get past the deluge of emails screaming for me to bring my site back up flooding my inbox.  I mean I must have gotten one I think.  Anyways, little did these people know that an olympic champion was in our midst.

You see Nastia Liukin is also a happy Dreamhost customer.  When she won a gold medal earlier this week, her site received an influx of visitors.  As you know, what goes up, must trample something else down.  That something was my poor pitiful, overloaded, underpowered, dreamhost server.  It just couldn’t bear the load.  I was extremely frustrated, until I read who the culprit was.  That made me stick out my chest, and hold my head high; swelled with national pride. 

Did I just use a semi-colon?  I hope it was appropriate!

My patriotic feelings quickly subsided as my server went down yet again!   The natives are really getting restless.

Oh well, at least i can say I helped win an olympic medal.  Somehow.  According to my feeble, egotistical mind.

I recently stumbled upon the neatest tool for bloggers, Windows Live Writer.  I had read about it about a year ago and thought nothing of it.  It is basically a desktop application which lets you post to your blog.  Doesn’t sound like much but it also handles image uploads, post metadata, gives you a preview of it on your site, and has a wysiwyg editor.  You can also edit your existing posts, add effects to your images, manage your categories.  In addition to this, it also has an open api so I expect to see some slick plugins coming out soon.  I highly recommend bloggers download it and give it a shot.  It is free, easy to install and setup, and works with most popular blog software.  Kudos to Microsoft for this free and useful piece of software!  When it’s as easy as this, I have no excuses for not posting.