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I thought it was time that I gave this blog a facelift, so I've changed the them to a three column one I found here I'm trying to get it to display some of the plugins that I have installed, so it's also proving to a be good exercise in housekeeping ie. I'm dumping a lot of the superfluos junk that I've installed over the last few months. If anything is broken please let me … [Read more...] about Blog Facelift

I posted a quick survey over on boards as I'd be interested to see what people are using. Most of the blogs I read on a regular basis seem to be using Wordpress, Movable Type or Blogger, but there's probably a lot of people out there using other blogging software. Why am I so interested? Why not? :) I'm naturally curious. EDIT: Posting a link to the survey might help! So here … [Read more...] about What are you running your blog on?

Technoogle had an interesting post about MSN's foray into the blogosphere - MSN filter I had a poke around it and I was more than a bit confused. From the description on the front page you would have thought it was an aggregator of some kind: MSN Filter is your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what's happening across the Web, according to the people who know the most ... … [Read more...] about Microsoft enters the blogosphere?

I'm currently going through one of my reading phases, which means that I get very upset if I don't have at least one novel to read after the one I'm currently reading. You can usually find me reading two or three books concurrently. One or two would be "work related" ie. not novels, while the third one is usually a fairly light novel. … [Read more...] about Reading Mania

There has been quite a bit of discussion in SEO circles following on the release of Google sitemaps a couple of months ago. For CMS and blogging platforms there are plugins that aid in the automatic creation of the sitemap and I use it on this site, however it does not cover the areas of the site outside my blog, so the rest of the site is not even mentioned. Roy Schestowitz … [Read more...] about Google Sitemaps – not all rosy?