May 18 2008
Well I haven’t posted anything here in a while, as I’ve been kinda snowed under from one angle or another, or just too tired to be bothered. Blogging, after all, is something I do as a spare moment/enthusiasm thing and well I ain’t had any lately. I was quite stunned when a person actually missed me on Twitter, almost flattering really (Hello Peter C. :))!
Stuff is happening though that means that’s set to change! Hurrah!
Apr 15 2008
I discovered this evening that, as part of their Windows Live! Services, Microsoft provide a Blogging tool called ‘Writer’. Now it would have been easy for them to only make it work with Live! Spaces and nothing else, but what I actually found was something much cooler. It supports Wordpress, and as such I am writing this post from the app in question. Minds are slowly opening up at Microsoft I think. Slowly but surely they are learning that there is a big world out there that is outside and has some super cool stuff going on. While a nice blogging tool is only a tiny thing to most people, it’s just another sign. More of this please Microsoft, and less threats of legal wrangling with Open Source authors.
UPDATE: slightly disappointingly, the Tags system in writer doesn’t interact correctly with the tag cloud database in Wordpress. Not a biggy but still a bit of a bummer.
Apr 14 2008
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1093.html
I could use at east half a dozen of those 
Mar 20 2008
I’d forgotten how much of a Joy Wordpress was to install. Seriously, it’s so smooth. Sure it takes a while to get everything in place (and I keep remembering stuff I need to do as I go along), but it’s another piece of well done Web 2.0. Oh, and it’s free, which is always great.
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