I’ve decided to start blogging a bit more again and have also decided to do the blogging on my new website at www.Roybott.com.

This blog will remain here as an archive but will not be updated anymore. My plan is to change Roy.Herrod.co.uk to be a more formal, personal and simple CV style page rather than one of my primary places on the web.

Bye bye!

I, along with a couple of friends, have just launched a new Twitter based contest called TrickOrTweat. The idea is that once a week we will announce a new topic and then encourage people to come up with responses. The best response (in our opinion) will win a Tweat (a prize) provided by our sponsor for that week, the worst response will earn itself a trick (booby prize) just for fun.

We are always on the look out for new sponsors for contests, so if you’re interested in sponsoring a contest email Sponsors@TrickOrTweat.net.

If you’d just like to have a look, participate and maybe win a prize then check out the website and twitter page for more information!

It’s been a while since I last posted on here, partly due to being busy with work but mainly due to a mixture of lazyness (its takes alot of effort to write a blog post ) and having a lack of anything really interesting to write about/interesting enough to get anyone to read it.

I have however started a Twitter account and regularly tweet about random links I find and other interesting stuff. I dont know why exactly but I much prefer the restriction of just 140 characters per post/tweet as opposed to the ‘unlimited’ space for a blog post, I think it’s down to people expecting much more from a post than a quick tweet!

Therefore untill I decide otherwise I’m going to leave this site/page as is, anyone interested is encouraged to join Twitter and follow me! – www.Twitter.com/Roybott

Back at CES in Early January Microsoft announced Microsoft Tag ( http://www.microsoft.com/tag ), since then I’ve been intending on trying it out but never got round to it. During the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona today more information on Microsoft Tag was announced so I finally decided to give it a shot.

I have to say I’m really impressed by how well, and quickly, my phone picks up the tag and directs me to the desired site (or other task). It seems to work really well on tags of all sizes, clarity and even on tags shown briefly in videos running on my pc! Obviously I had to try creating my own tag to try it out, so here it is…

As I’m currently in my last year at Hull University I’m expected to write a number of ‘proper’ reports, this includes having correctly laid out citations and references. Obviously one of the great features of Word in Office 2007 is the citation, reference and bibliography management. Hull University expect us to use the Harvard referencing style for our references which for some reason (I don’t know why) Microsoft made a decision not to include as a built in style for references.

But all is not lost! after a bit (more than I expected) of time searching around on the internet I found out that new styles can be added through the use of .XSL files and then eventually I found that someone had made one for the Harvard system (or at least an interpretation of it which happily matches the requirements of my University)

so if you need to use citations and references in Word 2007 and also need to use the Harvard style of references then simply go to the following site, download the files and place them where it tells you to

http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15852

Thank you Yves!

– and also thanks to the site that directed me there (Burela’s house-o-blog)