A fellow blogger (whose site has been down for a while) wrote about using Windows Live to write and manage posts on blogs. Unfortunately, no matter how many times I downloaded the Windows Live Writer, it caused me nothing but grief.

The first time I downloaded it and tried to use it – it caused some kind of memory issue. When I tried to defragment my disc I had less than 15 mb available. I couldn’t even defragment without deleting a bunch of other files just to make enough room to complete the task. Since then, I have downloaded, updated, uninstalled and repeated those steps several times.

No matter what I do, I get an error message that my memory is corrupt. Now, now…c’mon, I’m talking about my computer. Yea, I saw it coming. So I would send the error report to Microsoft and then continue on my way. I would get half way through my post and the darn system would crash. Needless to say, you all know what happened to the post I was writing. Gone, gone, gone.

In the meantime, I kept trying to write and respond to my blog through the admin panel. Not COOL at all. No spellchecker. No toolbars to speak of. It made posting a lot of work.

Too much time was passing and the same issue kept poking me in the eye. Today was the day I needed to find something else, and looky here. My first post using writetomyblog.com. So far, so good. Oh yea, it’s free too!

Don’t miss my next post… I’m starting a series about making ends meet during the recession. I’ve spent a great deal of time researching different ways people make money on the internet. I hope to provide you with a more direct route to some extra cash than most people will experience if they turn to the internet and get lost. Don’t worry if you have no idea what I’m talking about right now, just come back soon.

Helping you make ends meet!

Renee