Gelato del.icio.us

I’m not sure what to think of social bookmarking. I uploaded my bookmark folders from my laptop at home to del.icio.us. It took about half an hour for del.icio.us to give everything a place. I’d used capital letters to name the folders in my browser so the tags that del.icio.us assigned were also in [...]

Blog stats

Wow! Since I sent out my invitation yesterday my blog stats have gone from 30 views a day up to 98 for today!. Woutv suggested placing the blog stats for Hoi Gagarin on view. I didn’t think I had much to show but now I’ve changed my mind. So Woutv, I’m taking your advice and [...]

Comment & chat

This evening I took a little time browsing in the list of blogs on SPOETNIK – there are so many! I ended up picking a few at random and leaving some comments on the posts that I liked. The mix of personal and professional content made it really interesting reading.
I’ve started on SPOETNIK’s exercise for [...]

Blog bling

I’ve blinged (blung?) this blog with a blogroll of some of the blogs I like a lot. This is a short list since I’ve been spending my time finding out how to add widgets to a WordPress blog without throwing out the stuff I like in the default theme by mistake. This involved adding available [...]

Reading convention

This post is about my dislike of the default blog presentation. I’m talking about how the latest post automatically shoots to the top of the page when published.
Now I’m a conventional reader and I like to read (european) language text from left to right and in a chronological sequence that follows the flow of the [...]

Picking up speed

SPOETNIK’s exercise for week 2 is to make a blog. I like blogs, but I’ve never written one. So this a totally new experience for me.
I’ve discovered that it’s quite easy to set up a blog at WordPress as recommended by the SPOETNIK crew.
I’ve also discovered that I’m pretty fussy. Choosing a template took me [...]

Storm in a teacup

Once I’d written the first post ‘Hello world!’ and the ‘About this blog’ bit, I noticed a little link down the bottom of the left hand column ‘valid xhtml’. I clicked on it of course. I almost wish I hadn’t. I got linked though to a validator tool which promptly informed me,

This page is not [...]