The long way round…

I was handed this book by Mr A after a night on the beers - it’ll make you more productive he said and scuttled off! Mr A, who wishes to remain anonymous and to never be associated with this book. Ever! That’s not because he didn’t find the book useful. No. But more that such books are cheesy, made for tv, which targets disorganised people aimlessly roaming the planet. He does not want to be placed in that bracket. Eh Mr A.

That said I think the book is more advanced common knowledge with a process for Getting Things Done! I incorporated parts of David Allen’s thinking into my working life and would recommend the book based just upon that fact only. Worth a casual flick through for a couple of hours…

Okay adam I thought I’d give this a go after your post because I too believe that editing within WordPress is pretty bad. After a painless install, the Windows Live Blog Post picked up everything, my categories, my blog, the works.

I know there are much better blog editors out there. I just don’t have the energy to find them. But if anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears. I’ll keep going with this one until something pops…

As I start to read more on the internet, listening in on technology rants, observing the way people move about the web and use its tools, it is absolutely clear to me that you cannot do this without a base set of tools (over time I’ll discuss these tools here).  And one key tool is the good old RSS reader.  Now I’ve been through a number of RSS readers, but for all the free ones, OMEA is a damned fine product from those guys at JetBrains.  With its aggregation and syndication capabilities and its firefox 1.5 plugin, its simple choice for windows users.

Now I have to find a similar beast for my Linux boxes.  Anyone got any recommendations?

Choosing your blogging software is hard.  After asking around I settled upon Serendipity.  However, our network administrator told me to check out WordPress.  I was sold.  It’s simple.  It works.  It’s free.  Job done.

The one-pager from tamba has everything a newbie needs to get up and running with WordPress.  The most important thing from the one-pager is the test site for trying out pingbacks and trackbacks when you’re setting up your blog.   It work seamlessly.  Be careful though!  I lost a day reading up on how the whole blogsphere works.  More specifically how blogger posts propogate around the web (and web2.0) to consumers.  But I’ll save that for another post…

Off to read up on some php stuff which you need to know if you’re into WordPress…