Playing with Microsoft Live Writer

So, one of the important points of my trip in South America is that I won’t have internet access all the time, but hopefully in a lot of places I’ll still have power to run my laptop. I’m hoping to pre-stage my blog posts / etc. so that I can just upload them when appropriate.

In the process of looking for good easy to use utilities for panorama shots I stumbled across Microsoft Live Writer, which lets you write blog posts in a format compatible with your blog and prep them with all the same formatting, text, picture inserts, etc. How cool is that? Using this I can write my blog posts when I get a chance, then just one-click publish them when I have data connectivity. So, this is the first test of that.

To also test Microsoft Image Composite Editor, I stood up on my table and took a few pictures of all the gear that I have laid out so far for the trip (I never use the dining room table unless I have people over, so it’s perfect for staging my gear). Check it out, this is a composite image made from about 7 source images:

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