Interesting Links

Thought I would finally get round to linking to some of the interesting posts on other blogs that I have come across over the past few weeks. I hope you find them useful, informative etc etc.

Wordpress Links

• WordPress Post Content Sandbox Content Updated
• Wordpress Backup Database
• Setting up a local wordpress development environment

Blogging Links

• Why Video IS Worth Experimenting with On Your Blog
• How to Use Facebook to Promote Your Blog
• Blog Struggles: Trackbacks Count
• Pull Your Blog Into FriendFeed and Increase Exposure

Podcast/Vidcast Links

• Record a multi-participant podcast with GarageBand
• Gathering audio to go with your pictures
• Tips for Taking Home Video Like a Pro

Misc

• Check Your Company’s Reputation
• How to send a personal email
• CSS tips that every beginning developer should know about
• How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic

Finally here is one I think everyone will like:

worlds best chai tea recipe

As I said I hope folks found these interesting, and I will do another brain dump like this soon.

Freedom2Surf Feck Up Again

I should of posted this yesterday, but wanted to give my ISP a chance. As a part of Freedom2Surfs continuing attempt to provide a crap service I currently have no email. It's been down since the early hours of yesterday (so over 24  hours now). It has had one or two emails through in that time. But ones I know I should have, have not come through. Like the email alerts I get when folks comment on here, or when a friend makes a comment on my Facebook page.

I could moan how the quality of service has just gone down hill with them since they were bought out. Especially in the last 3 months. Which in that time they have had more email outages and lose of ADSL than all of the 11 years or so that I have been with them put together. So something has changed at my ISP, and it's not for the better that is for sure.

So if you have sent me an email and I haven't replied in the last 24 hours, there is a good chance my ISP (Freedom2Surf) has fecked up delivering it to me.

Stating The Bloody Obvious

I couldn't resist linking to this story on Gizmodo "Microsoft Says Less Phones Will Have WinMo in the Future".

Apart from the fact in the story M$ are saying they will be the ones limiting the number of phones with their OS on. Somehow I think that with the other choices out there being better than the M$ offering, they may find that the manufacturers were already planning to use them less anyway.

Windows Mobile 7 needs to be something special to compete with the competition. Yet it is already late to the party. From the rumblings online I don't think it will be good enough to compete either.

So by force or by choice the M$ claim was always going to be stating the bloody obvious.