Changes

I have been playing with the blog’s sidebar. There is now a quick link to recent comments; this was added in response to an increase in comments since the start of the year.

I was experimenting with LAST.FM, a Web2.0/Social Networking tool which analyses the music that you play on the PC or iPod and makes recommendations based on those choices. Part of its service was to list the last x songs played as a widget on the right side of my blog. This would let the world (Or to be accurate that tiny fraction of a sliver of a percentage that reads my blog) know that my music taste is a little odd. However, with my basic WordPress account, it would not work; so the only change is positive. You can easily read  the interesting comments that my blog gets; though I hope you don’t ignore the blog in exhange for the snappy and amsuing comments.

(I have just used Social Networking and Web2.0 in the same sentence; the Valley is getting to me. This is not the same valley that Otana referenced in her recent comment. In LA people talk of the Valley and they mean San Fernando Valley. This is the home of a certain sort of blonde female called “Valley Girl”, whose conversation is peppered with ‘whatever’, ‘totally tubular’, and ‘Like, Oh My God’. They also use ‘like’ an order of magnitude more frequently than a Glaswegian uses the ‘F’ word. In Northern California,“The Valley” is “Silicon Valley”. Silicon Valley is not technically a valley and is not an area from which most of the silicon chips originate; however with the exception of a software company in Seattle, it remains the heart of US technology companies. I may be trying to retain my British nature, but in an area so focused on technology, it is easy to start using words like Social Networking and Web2.0. So, another example of going native.)

(Sorry for the afterword, whose length exceeds the original post; normal subject matter will be resumed with the next post.)