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Kids, Mother & Father

That's Myself and my son (I love you da)I always liked the lifestyle and health articles shown in top area in MSN.COM. This week MSN published few interesting articles relating to raising kids, all had some unconventional wisdom that I thought it was worth to link from here.

  • Turning to nannies and day care, many working moms have mixed feelings about leaving the kids at home. How to handle this? 
  • The other article was on The Making of a Modern Dad. The article says there is more than what meets the eye of fatherhood. In fact there seems to be considerable hormone changes happening in a father just like it happens to a mother after pregnancy. Fathers tend to become more caring and loving than before having a child.  Being a father of a 4 year old boy, I tend to agree with this article, though I don’t understand the biological effects. The best part in the article was the phrase “Honey, we’re pregnant
  • This is a question that all parents have – how good or bad is Television?. This article says that Television viewing is not encouraged for kids below 2 years, but can be good if moderated for kids between 3 to 5.

Blogging…

This post is about three items related to blogging. Windows Live Writer Installation

Windows Live Writer Beta 2

Microsoft have finally released the new version (Beta 2) of Windows Live Writer. I consider Live Writer to the best software from Windows Live team. After their initial release – no news from them for almost a year now. It was as bad as dead, and I thought it is one of those Microsoft’s experiments that don’t make it. Writer is probably the software I use most after Explorer, Outlook, Internet Explorer in that order. I am happy to see the project living and improvements made in the new version. And it supports dasBlog better than ever.  Windows Live Writer (and the new Messenger 8.5) introduces a new installation UI that gets displayed on the Right Hand Bottom of the screen area – this is unlike the regular installers which take up center of the screen and disturb your regular work.

30 Guidelines for a Good Blog

Since I have been blogging for few years now, people  ask me about what are the guidelines to follow when you start a blog. I always got away by saying keep posting often, don’t just post links and don’t talk about work. Today this need is solved with Scott Hanselman posting an excellent list of “30 Guidelines for a good blog“. Scott Hanselman is one of my fellow Microsoft Regional Directors and a regular technical blogger.

What is a Blog?

About a year back (I read this only today) John C.Dvorak has commented on how large sites push out ordinary web pages and call them blog. He was expressing in this column his anger on the loose usage of the term “Blog” and what he expects to be in a good blog.