Roy Herrod's Blog » Blog http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:49:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Moved to Twitter for now… http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/02/16/moved-to-twitter-for-now/ http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/02/16/moved-to-twitter-for-now/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:10:15 +0000 Roybott http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/?p=81 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

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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.

]]> http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/29/updated-blog-and-retrofitted-tags/feed/ 0 Everything back up and running… http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/25/everything-back-up-and-running/ http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/25/everything-back-up-and-running/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:54:49 +0000 Roybott http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/25/everything-back-up-and-running/ 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!

]]> http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/25/everything-back-up-and-running/feed/ 1 Very long time… No posts! http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/10/09/very-long-time-no-posts/ http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/10/09/very-long-time-no-posts/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:25:14 +0000 Roybott http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/?p=17 Well its been about 2 months since I last posted… wow so much for keeping this going!

OK so ill try and sum up the last 2 months in as little writing as I can:

  • Got a nice new 32″ Samsung HDTV!
  • Opened a LoveFiLM account (which is AWESOME)
  • Went to Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California
  • Got some ‘Lucky Charms’
  • Got my Legendary Edition of Halo 3
  • Got RRoD (Red Ring of Death) on my 360 :(

32″ Samsung HDTVMicrosoft SVC Building 3 Mountain ViewLucky Charms

Halo 3 Legendary Edition360 RRoD

There is more but I can’t really think at this second… so I’ll post again if there is anything major I missed about the last 2 months and hopefully keep this blog a bit more up to date in the future!

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On a slightly different note, the previous two posts have been quick summaries of my first two weeks within MS, I wrote them like this as I haven’t had access to the Internet (at home anyway) during those weeks and so couldn’t write about events just as they happened. My intention for the future of this blog is to keep a record of any ‘key’ things that happen (either happen to me, or just things that happen that I deem interesting enough to comment on) rather than write about every little thing or every week that goes by.

]]> http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/08/01/back-online/feed/ 0 First post… http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/06/06/first-post/ http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/06/06/first-post/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:42:46 +0000 Roybott http://roy.herrod.co.uk/blog/?p=3 Well this is it, the first post on this shiny new blog of mine!

I intend to keep this blog updated with information about myself, my internship year at Microsoft and any personal projects I get round to finally starting…

For more information about me see the ‘About Me‘ page.

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