Windows Live Writer

So I’m currently writing from my desktop, with out actually being logged into blogspot.  How can I do this you ask??  The answer is a nifty little program called Windows Live Writer.  I know it’s been out a while, but I just finally got my crap together enough to start really concentrating on this whole cloud computing thing.  This is really nice though.  It makes blogging WAY easier, especially since you don’t have to visit a site to login and then blog, just click an icon on your desktop and there ya go, a space to blog. 

Anyway, now on to my other recent favorite topic, Hyper-V (pleas let all groans out here.) 

I got my hands on Hyper-V server 2008 R2 and wow, what a huge improvement it is over the initial Beta.  The command line utility that they have, has way more options and makes life way easier for those of us who have become spoiled by the WYSIWYG interfaces that exist now-a-days. 

Another really nice feature that has been added in is the ability to enable Failover Clustering.  This is a new feature that was rolled out with Server 2008, and from what I’ve read about it, it looks really cool, and the perfect solution for a fully VM environment.  The only downside right now, besides the need for setting up a test environment and then destroying it (ok, so that’s more of the fun part and not really a challenge) but all the management tools that exist only work with server 2008 and not with hyper-v server…I know, hyper-v server is only in Beta form and I’m sure once it gets out of Beta then MS will release tools that will work with it…hopefully. 

Ok, that’s about it from me.  More later on.

~C