I’ve finally gone all del.icio.us. That is to say I’ve started using the del.icio.us service, which is a rather cunning bookmarking service. The tagging feature is actually more useful than you may expect it to be, and it’s good to be able to look at what other people have bookmarked related to your own ones.
Took a trip over to the pond at Friday Street in Surrey. I was hoping to get some pictures of dragon flies and things like that, but they were generally to far away for me to get a good close up. I took the ’scenic’ route back to the car and stumbled across some ferns with the sun behind then. The wind was blowing so I had to use a quick shutter speed — meaning less depth of field than I’d have liked. Still, I quite liked the result.
While I’m in the mood for change I’ve decided to move my feeds over to FeedBurner.
If you subscribe to my feeds, it would be pretty cool if you could switch over to these ones:
Posts feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/marksw
Comments feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/markswcomments
I say these are RSS feeds, but FeedBurner do something called SmartFeed, which “translates your feed on-the-fly into a format (RSS or Atom) compatible with your visitors’ feed reader application“. Not sure how good or bad this is, but I may as well give it a whizz.
Update
Turns out you can also ’splice’ your Flickr feed into your blog feed, so I’ll give that a bash too. If it all works nicely, I’ll probably move BritBlog over to this - would certainly be interesting to know how many subscribers there are to that feed…
I finally got around to upgrading my Wordpress installation from 1.5.0 to 2.0.3. I upgraded BritBlog ages ago but never managed to get around to this one. Seeing as I’m off work ill today (and my Sky is broken so I can’t watch Big Brother 
), I’ve taken the plunge. I do like this new version, and the Akismet plugin is fantastic! I also installed the SimpleTags plugin, which is very neat, the Sociable plugin for social bookmarking, and am currently using a rather modified TypoXP theme.
If you spot anything broken, please do let me know!
Probably a bit of a copyright infringement, but I just heard this on the TV so thought I’d share it with you.
Auguries of Innocence
William BlakeTo see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Although working in the middle of nowhere can be a bit quiet at times, it does give me some great opportunities. How many people can walk to a vineyard in their lunch break, have a nice cold glass of wine, then get back to the office in the space of an hour?!
For those that don’t know, Denbies is the largest vineyard in the UK, and they make some jolly nice wine!
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