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!

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…

After updating from a very old version of WordPress I discovered that WordPress now has support for proper ‘Tags’, so I decided to go back and add them to all of my previous posts.

Retrofitting tags probably isn’t the best idea but at least now I wont have a period where my tag cloud (now added to the side bar on the left ) has only 2 things in it.

Well I’m sure absolutely no one had noticed but this blog/site/domain had been offline for a number of weeks (maybe a month). The Reason is that my hosting with Streamline.net was about to expire when I suddenly decided that I wanted to move to a different hosting provider, unfortuantly I didnt get the cancelation sorted out untill about 10 days before my renewal was due. This meant that I didnt meet Streamline.net’s 14 day cancelation period and so they wouldn’t allow me to cancel (more on this in a later post where I’ll complain about a few other things too!)

Anyway everything is back online now and I’m back at University for my final year!