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Trying the Barley WordPress Plugin

  I love my Surface 2 and my Nokia Lumia 2520, but until today, they were not a good blogging platform. I’ve been holding my breath waiting for a Modern UI/Start screen App version of Windows Live Writer, but I…

Surface Review

Upfront I have to say that I really like my new Surface tablet.  I have a desktop with Windows 8 that I’ve been using primarily for development and testing and I found that the modern UI is just not very…

Weatherbug App W8 vs. iPad reliability

Here we are in the middle of a hurricane and I decided to see what the projected wind speeds would be. Turns out that the info on the iPad app from the same vendor is off by 10 mph for…

Posting from Surface using WinRT and Word

One of the things my iPad does not do elegantly, even with the Blogsy App is allow me to post to my blogs easily. I’m hoping that using Word 2013 on new surface tablet is reasonably successful. In any case,…

ET, Please hold–no one home to take your call

There is a great sound bite from the 1997 movie Contact, where young Ellie and her dad discuss the possibilities of life “out there”:   Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there’s people on other planets? Ted Arroway: I don’t…