Akismet

I just activated the Akismet anti-blog comment spam plug-in. Let’s see how well it works – I am not being flooded with spam right at the moment because this blog is so new. We’ll see how it goes. I am pretty…

Cool WordPress blog

Lorelle on WordPress is a great blog for people who use the universe’s greatest blogging app. Her last two posts are both pretty interesting and I’m going to investigate them both a bit further: Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin Update…

K2

K2 seems like a really interesting theme for WordPress. It is still in beta at the moment, but I have installed on World of Dave just to see how it works and looks. I actually really like the feel of…

What I use (at the moment)

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the applications I use on a regular basis. This was obviously on the Windows laptop I am using right now. This is going to change in a major way pretty soon, when I…

The Changes

So, what made me want to change things round? Well, there have been, or are going to be, several changes to the way I am doing things generally, IT-wise. One thing is that I really wanted to move away from…

New sites and feeds

Right, so I have put in place the new blogs. The tech blog, which is what most people will be interested in, is now at and the feed is The ‘personal’ blog is at /worldofdave and the feed…

First past the post

Here’s the first post, taking over from where davebriggs.net left off. Well, some of it. This is where I am going to be doing all of the tech stuff I used to write about – in other words, most of…

The end of an era, kind of…

You may have noticed a complete lack of action on this blog of late. That’s partially because of life getting in the way, but more a case of me planning to move away from it. I am going to be…

Clough to Forest?

From the Guardian‘s perennially unreliable Rumour Mill: And we’ll usher in the weekend with a long-awaited bit of good news for Nottingham Forest fans after more than a year of Gary route-one Megson: Nigel Clough is rumoured to be tempted…

Two Opinions on Google’s Page Creator

Google’s recent page creator has drawn some conflicting views. I’ll pluck two out here. Scoble is broadly in favour: I see a lot of bloggers saying “so” about Google’s new Web Page Creator. I think bloggers often miss the larger…