Friday 24 August 2007

How to create a blogroll

And what are YOU reading today?A blogroll is a list of blogs that one is reading, or at least that one subscribes to, and which one recommends to others. This article is a quick how-to guide on how to set one up.



And what are you reading today?


As you can imagine, it would be awful to have to add the RSS feeds for each blog to a web page using HTML coding. Fortunately, life has been made rather easier than that.

Read on to find out more.

Twitter: an evaluation


egretWhen Twitter first appeared on the scene, I thought it sounded like a complete waste of time.

But as more and people I respect started singing its praises, I thought I ought to give it a whirl.

That was a couple of months ago, and here are my conclusions.


Sunday 19 August 2007

Conversation in an electronics store...

One would think that a prerequisite for working in a store (any store) would be an ability to listen. In an ideal world one might hope for a passing acquaintance with the product area in question. The relationship between my patience with sales “assistants” (I use the term guardedly) and my age is an inverse one. Thus it was that the following conversation left me fuming…