Richard Wilkinson’s Blog

New Job

After 13 months at Zoomf, ive decided to move on and I start work for online supermarket Ocado on monday.  This should mean much less messing around with html and css which will be most welcome.

Web 2.0 crisis

I’ve recently had a web 2.0 crisis, specifically I decided that for a computer geek that works for a web 2.0 search engine I needed to be using more web 2.0 services than just facebook and google reader. So to rectify this I have signed up to twitter and and to retaggr.

I’m sure you have all heard about twitter, if you haven’t then what are you doing reading the blog of a computer geek? You can follow me here. I did have a niftly little twitter gadget on this blog, but twitter is a bit unreliable at the moment (overloaded) and was slowing down my page load too much.

Retaggr is a kind of on line profile aggregator, like an online business card. It provides a neat way of showing all of your online accounts, like facebook, linkedin, or last.fm all in one place. They also provide a wordpress plugin so you can retaggr enable your blog. This basically means that if you leave a comment and are signed up to retaggr then your profile card will popup when someone hovers over your name (sign up and make a comment here if you dont believe me). You can see my retaggr profile by clicking on the retaggr button in the right hand side of my blog.

I am also going to sign up to del.icio.us when I get time, which I know isn’t really that new, but is still something that I feel I should be using, especially since I now have nothing to synchronise my firefox bookmarks easily.

p.s. sorry for the over enthusiastic use of the term web 2.0 in this post, I know it doesn’t really mean anything

Tags: web 2.0

New look

I’ve had the same theme for a while now, so I decided it was time for a change.  I think you will agree that it looks alot better now, thanks to the free Statement theme from here.

Now I just need to brush up on my image editing skills to create a better icon for the top left.