What am I reading now?
I’ve added a new feature to my blog. If you look on the right side, you’ll notice a “Now Reading” section. You can also just click this link to go to the main summary page.
Robert Scoble upset he didn’t get a free ticket…
There was a shudder throughout the Internet today: Robert Scoble, former Official Blogger for Microsoft and now writer/podcaster for PodTech.Net, didn’t receive an invite to a Microsoft developer conference. A fellow at Microsoft by the name of Alfred Thompson responded saying (more or less) that Scoble isn’t the target audience for the conference anyway. And Scoble was pissed by this response.
Timing is everything…
How about this for timing….on February 27th, I upgraded my version of WordPress from 2.0.4 to 2.1.1. It was quite some time since my last upgrade, and there were several security fixes that I needed to get installed. I was briefly proud of myself for getting my site sort of up to date.
A year with Google AdSense…and $19 richer!
I added Google AdSense to my blog in December of 2005. As I said back then, I was curious how it would work for me.
Upgrade in progress
I’m upgrading the version of WordPress (the software that runs this blog) on my server. This is a periodically necessary process in order to keep up with security updates.
Some site features may temporarily disappear during the upgrade, and should re-appear once the upgrade is complete. It is also likely that there will be some problems during the upgrade process.
Long silence…catching up
I haven’t been posting here for a loooong time: over a month, I think. So, what’s up?
In the past month, I’ve been doing the following things:
- spent a lot of time exploring Second Life
- caught and started recovering from a really bad cold. I’m still sick, but gradually returning to normal
- worked
- took a weekend holiday with Irene for our anniversary
- posted some pictures to the gallery here from when my friend Chris was visiting
Ultimate Tag Warrior, Ecto, and other fun things
I have become increasingly intrigued with the concept of “tagging” in blogs over the past year or so. Tagging is a way for someone posting a blog entry (or other web content) to include some sort of categorization hints in the form of keywords. Specialized search engines like Technorati can then use those keywords to present “similar” content.
Microsoft wants *you* to try IE 7 Beta…
Microsoft is on its second beta of Internet Explorer 7, and they really want people to download and use it. I’ve been telling people who are having problems seeing my website “correctly” to use Firefox since IE 6 is full of CSS and DOM rendering bugs. IE7 will fix most of those problems, and the Beta actually looks reasonably good.
Messing around with my site appearance
If the site looks a little “broken” at the moment, that’s my fault. I decided it would be interesting to try a new(ish) option for WordPress called “widgets” which, in theory, will make it easier for me to customize the layout of my site. Before I can do that, I have to be using a widgets-compatible WordPress theme. The one I’m experimenting with now is called “WP-Andreas09“.
Bloggus Interruptus- why I post irregularly
There are times here in Kelly’s World when I post not just daily, but several times a day. This is usually followed by periods of time during which I’m basically silent- sometimes two or three days, occasionally a week or two.