Today marks a major milestone as I once again move my personal blog back to the DotNetNuke Blog.  Four years ago I switched to BlogEngine.Net. There were a number of reasons for doing that, but in the ensuing four years, my reasons for moving off of DotNetNuke as a blogging platform have been mostly resolved.  Where there are still deficiencies in the platform, I am able to contribute to filling those holes and in fact I have been actively working with the blog team for the last year doing just that.

So as of today, you will see me running DotNetNuke for all of my primary blogging needs.  I’ll still have some mini-blogs over on Posterous but those are mostly just a replacement for using Twitpic.

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Today Microsoft opened up the beta for Wave 4 of the Windows Live Essentials tools including Windows Live Writer.  I have been a long time user of WLW and have come to really enjoy both the simplicity and the power of the tool when writing my blog posts.  I really didn’t see a lot that needed “fixing”, and in this release of WLW it looks like that is exactly what I got – not a lot that has been fixed.

That is not to say that a lot hasn’t changed, because from a UI perspective, it is almost completely different.  The biggest change is that the new live writer now proudly sports a fairly standard ribbon bar just like those found in Microsoft Office.  And just like in Office, I find that the new ribbon bar is somewhat of a step backward.  People are by their natures creatures of habits.  Once we learn how to do something, we don’t want to have to relearn it without a very good reason.